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    Need for MRFA

    In January this year, the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh led a high level delegation to the UK; reportedly, one of the points on the visit’s...
  • C 17 Iaf Globemaster

    Air Power in Joint Operations

    The IAF’s squadron strength is less than three-fourths of its sanctioned strength and its stated doctrine mandates it to carry out its own strategic tasks,...
  • C 295

    C-295 Deal for the Indian Aerospace Industry

    The Indian Air Force (IAF) inducted the HS 748 Avro in the 1960s. This twin-engine turboprop aircraft was initially designed by British aircraft Original Equipment...
  • Various Uavs

    Impact of UAVs on Strategic Air Warfare

    Emerging technologies, with splendid assistance from Artificial Intelligence (AI), are driving remarkable Research and Development (R&D) in the area of unmanned systems for use on...
  • General Automics Mq 9 Reaper

    Hypersonic Weapon Systems for India

    In the beginning of March this year, Russia launched its biggest aerial attack in its ongoing war with Ukraine. The attack comprised a variegated weapon...
  • Hal Tejas5

    The IAF’S Weapons Systems Branch: A Prognosis

    The nature of warfare and consequently, the conduct of air warfare, are undergoing significant and rapid transformation as a result of the munificence of emerging...
  • Various Uavs

    The need for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for the IAF

    Unarmed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) began as desirable supplements to military inventories, but these have grown rapidly in technological sophistication to become essential complements of the...
  • Lockheed Martin F 35

    Sixth Generation Fighter Aircraft: Its Prospects

    Classification of fighter aircraft into ‘generations’ dates back to the 1990s and there are several diverse classification criteria applied by air historians, the National Aeronautics...
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    Artificial Intelligence in Avionics

    The term avionics was first used in late 1940s as a portmanteau conjoining ‘aviation’ and ‘electronics’ but since then, both aviation and electronics have undergone...
  • Indian Heron N Indian Navy

    UAVs: A Great Operational Asset

    The precursor to modern day Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) flew more than a century ago as the Curtiss-Sperry Flying Bomb manufactured in 1917 – a...
  • Spice 250

    C4ISR and Autonomous Capabilities

    A military leader, as a pre-condition, must be able to exercise Command and Control (C2) over the forces subordinated to him if he is to...
  • Russian S 400 Missile

    Challenges of Integrated Air Defence

    There is a need for taking it slow and not plunging into a hastily set up arrangement just because the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)...
  • Make In India Defence

    Make in India and The Aerospace Industry

    This article delves into ‘Make in India’ and India’s aerospace industry, the two regimes have a lot in common. Each has immense potential, but is...
  • Watchkeeper Air Vehicles

    Airspace Control: Challenges and Way Ahead

    In the framework of international law, ‘sovereignty’ signifies the full right and power of a State to govern itself and its territory without any external...
  • Lockheed Martin F 16

    Securing the Indian Skies

    The face-saving reprisal by Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in response to the Indian Air Force (IAF) aerial strike on February 26, 2019, against a Jaish-e-Mohammad...
  • Indian Apache Ah 64e

    Advances in Military Helicopters

    While lagging behind fixed-wing combat aircraft that are stretching out to their sixth generation, military helicopters have yet cornered substantial attention and funding to have...
  • Iaf Sukhoi Su 30mki N1

    Combat Potential of the IAF for a Two-Front War

    India is now the world’s fifth highest defence spender, but statistics can be disingenuously deceptive. In terms of percentage of GDP, it is the lowest...
  • Mi 17 1v Helicopters

    The Unmanned Battlefield Helicopter

    The term ‘battlefield helicopter’ continues to live on and conjure up visions of sleek, fierce looking rotary-wing craft shrieking their way over friendly forces on...
  • Rafale For India

    Role of the IAF in a Two-Front War

    The White Paper on China’s Military Strategy 2015 states, “In line with the strategic requirement of building air-space capabilities and conducting offensive and defensive operations,...
  • Indian Ch 47fi Chinook

    Modernisation of the IAF’s Helicopter Fleet

    The IAF began with US helicopters in the fifties and expanded gradually to include license-built French and Soviet helicopters. The circle is coming round once...
  • Ch 47 Chinook

    Advances In Technology: Battlefield Helicopters

    Inarguably, the most ambitious programme to design future battlefield helicopters is the US FVL. However, the Dutch Air Chief, Lt. Gen. Alexander Schnitger reportedly questioned...
  • Rafale For India

    Revamping the Combat Fleet of the IAF

    In the absence of any indigenously produced combat aircraft discounting the non-operational Tejas, India’s current aircraft are Russian (MiG-21, MiG-27, MiG-29, Su-30MKI), French (Mirage-2000) and...
  • Plaaf Su 27

    How Worrisome is PLAAF Presence in Tibet?

    The threat of co-ordinated action by China and Pakistan is a distinct possibility and, under such a scenario, the IAF would have to spread its...
  • Ag600

    China – The New Aerospace Power

    Both India and China began their march towards progress almost at the same time and have had an unwholesome antagonism towards each other since the...
  • Ch 47 Chinook

    Future of Rotary Wing Craft

    Technological advances have brought impressive improvements in rotorcraft technology albeit without eliminating the intrinsic limitations. The classic helicopter design has been mutated into newer types...
  • Rq 4 Block 20 Global Hawk E1461307220767

    Will Advances in UAVs Edge Out Manned Aircraft?

    The term ‘drone’ has hummed itself into aviation lexicon and is universally used to describe flying objects not carrying a human pilot; some other terms...
  • Su 30mki

    Is the IAF Equipped for a Two-Front War?

    During the past decade, India’s defence preparedness has steadily and inexorably deteriorated despite constant clamour by the defence forces for modernisation and upgradation to meet...
  • Chinese Air Freighter Y 20

    Rise of the Transport Aircraft Industry in China

    Reaching the leading edge in technological regimes is an objective purposefully being pursued by China and the velocity of development in some technologies has been...
  • Chinese Su 27

    Rise of the PLAAF: Implications for India

    The ‘inscrutable’ sobriquet for the Chinese is not so much because of their unsmiling faces but on account of their unpredictable actions. Military action against...