Editor-in-Chief’s Note: Lt Gen BS Pawar’s article is being presented in two parts. In Part I, the discourse is about helicopter development having trailed the pace of aircraft technolo... Read more
; By: Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan, AVSM & Bar, VSM, IN (Retd); 2
The year 2022 arrived as a harried harbinger of tidings of war and woe in the Indo-Pacific — a geo-strategic region central to the security calculus of both, regional and extra-regional play... Read more
The Modi government had promised to cut the Gordian knot in which defence procurement and acquisitions were locked in. The major endeavour in this regard was to be a new Defence Procurement... Read more
Preamble India, an aspiring power, has long harboured the goal of possessing a technologically advanced self-sufficient arms industry. While its economic power has expanded and its technolog... Read more
When a nation goes to war it often experiences difficulties in procurement of critical spares and ammunition, with old suppliers often enforcing a denial due to multifarious reasons. (Discla... Read more
Russia’s Kalashnikov Concern, makers of AK-47 assault rifles, is in advanced discussions with Indian companies to manufacture certain weapons here and is open to sharing technology wit... Read more