| ISR advanced technology |
| Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) are central to the conduct of warfare both in attack and defence. India has over the past two decade bought all kinds of sensors (airborne and land based) to try and improve its ISR capabilities |
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| Setting aerospace command |
| The decision to set up
an aerospace command is moving at a snail’s pace. As a first step
towards the creation of an aerospace command the Indian Ministry of
Defence has decided to set up an aerospace agency, besides setting up a
cyber agency, which will be jointly managing the requirements of three
services as a precursor to setting up the cyber command. |
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| Nanotechnology |
| Nanotechnology promises
to bring revolutionary changes in many areas, with the potential for
great benefits. Nanotechnology (NT) is predicted to produce
revolutionary changes, bringing far-reaching consequences in many areas.
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| Indigenous AWACS |
| India is set to upgrade
its indigenous airborne early warning and control systems (AEW&C)
aircraft to the larger airborne warning and command system (AWACS) based
on a western platform. Hitherto it has used the Russian Ilyushin-76 to
fit an Israeli Phalcon radar and the smaller Brazilian Embraer-145 on
which it attached an airborne radar system designed and developed in
Indian laboratories. |
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| Night vision devices |
| The Indian Army is
currently caught in a dilemma of being able to acquire third generation
night vision devices in sufficient numbers to equip the fighting man
(and machines) at the cutting edge of the battlefield. Given that
battles no longer wait for the |
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| Indian aerospace |
| In the context of the
changed political landscape in New Delhi, there is a hope and optimism
that the hitherto slow moving Indian aerospace sector could script a success story by replacing IT sector and software services industry as
the “sunrise area” of the Indian economy in none too distant a future. |
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| Situational awareness |
| The ancient art of warfare has now evolved into a sophisticated battlefield strategy based on the large scale use of fighting platforms and combat equipment stuffed with advanced electronic systems and devices capable of |
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| EMP weapons |
| The future of the
battlefield will be closely tied in with the advance of electronics
computers, robots and sensors will become more common on the future
battlefield. Infantrymen are being equipped with digital radios and
computers. |
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| Simulator training |
| No doubt, the kill
capability of modern military has grown tremendously in recent years due
to the advent of latest technologies, yet it is proving to be a hide
and seek game since the enemy is also going to put a cocktail of modern
technologies with superior war strategy to avoid detection. |
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| Advanced UAVs |
| Modern war is all about
controlling the progress of combat scenario without getting directly
engaged into the war theatre from a close proximity. For that, air
superiority remains an essential military mission and instead of
fighters now UAV and UCAV are all set to perform the task. |
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