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”WE ARE WORKING WITH A RANGE OF INDIAN MSMES”
Naval Group has already, in Project-75, achieved a high level of indigenisation through transfer of technology and has created a strong industrial ecosystem of MSMEs as suppliers, explains LAURENT VIDEAU, Country & Managing Director - Naval Group India Pvt Ltd. in this interview with Geopolitics
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December 2021
Geopolitics
INDIA SUCCESSFULLY TESTS NEW LONG-RANGE BOMB
An Indian Air Force(IAF) team and the Defence Research and Development organization (DRDO) has successfully flight-tested the country's first indigenously developed long-range bomb (LRB) from a Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter jet over Balasore in Odhisha in October.
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November 2021
Geopolitics
INDIA'S AGNI-5 ICBM OPERATIONALISED:ROAD TO AGNI-6 CLEARED
On October 27, India executed the final test flight of the Agni- 5 thermonuclear-capable ICBM (Intercontinental-range Ballistic Missile) from Dr. Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha. The missile traveled almost 5000 km before splashing down into the Southern Indian Ocean.
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November 2021
Geopolitics
PARAMILITARY MODERNISATION: AN URGENT NEED OF THE HOUR
At a time when the India is facing significant internal security threats both internally and externally, t is high time to reshape the strategic dynamics by modernising the paramilitary forces,
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November 2021
Geopolitics
‘PRIVATE SECTOR HAS HUGE POTENTIAL IN INDIA'S AEROSPACE INDUSTRY'
This is an opportune moment for private players to make their presence felt. The DPSUs are beginning o outsource some of their work to MSMEs and private industry, but it is now high time for the industry to step into the big league, ays AIR CHIEF MARSHAL IVEK RAM CHAUDHARI VSM AVSM VM ADC in this exclusive interaction with geopolitics
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November 2021
Geopolitics
“WE ARE PREPARED TO HANDLE A TWO-FRONT CONTINGENCY”
Newly appointed AIR CHIEF MARSHAL VIVEK RAM CHAUDHARI PVSM AVSM VM ADC is confident that the Indian Air Force is ready and prepared. The ACM has an air of relaxed confidence and a complete command of the issues that confront the IAF, as it stares down the Chinese both in the Eastern and Western sectors. As he explains during the annual press conference a few days before Air Force Day (October 8), there is a paradigm change in future warfare including the non-kinetic, non-lethal challenges. IAF has its own strategy in place to have directed-energy weapons, unmanned wingman among other futuristic technologies. He is confident that of the force’s offensive strike capabilities that have become even more potent with the induction of cutting-edge weapons. Below are the highlights of the interaction and the key issues he discussed at the event.
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October 2021
Geopolitics
EMBRAER CAN HELP INDIA ACHIEVE GLOBAL EXPORTER STATUS
Embraer believes that India’s ‘Make in India’ and ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat (Self-reliant India)’ campaigns are not only initiatives to boost Indian local industry, but are also eminent steps to make India a producer of critical technologies in the world, says Jackson schneider, President & CEO of Embraer Defense & Security in this exclusive conversation
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October 2021
Geopolitics
''IAF HAS NOW GOT ASSETS THAT CAN CONTRIBUTE TO CREATING STRATEGIC IMPACT‘‘
MANMOHAN BAHADUR, a retired Air Vice Marshal, served in 114 Helicopter Unit as a Flying Officer in 1978-82 and as its Commanding Officer 1994-97. This unit is the lifeline for all Siachen operations and has a storybook full of valour and guts. In this in depth conversation he offers his perspective on the IAF and how we need to address issues in the years ahead
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October 2021
Geopolitics
BOEING'S VERSATILE RELATIONSHIP WITH IAF
Surendra Ahuja, Managing Director, Boeing Defence India talks about the wide ranging and comprehensive relationship between the American aerospace giant and the country’s armed forces in this exclusive conversation
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October 2021
Geopolitics
A 50 YEAR STRONG PARTNERSHIP
MBDA has a strong reputation as a reliable partner that has supported the Indian armed forces for over 50 years. Going forward, the company is committed to delivering the best of military equipment to the country, said Boris solomiac, MBDA General Delegate India
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October 2021
Geopolitics
Aeronautics presents multi cross-action intelligence gathering capability
Aeronautics Group presented its multi cross-action operation intelligence gathering solutions, including the Orbiter 3 STUAS, Orbiter 4 STUAS, and Orbiter 1K Loitering Munition UAS, at DEFEA-2021.
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August 2021
Geopolitics
AN INSIDER'S VIEW OF DRDO
Institutions that shaped modern India: DRDO
6 min |
August 2021
Geopolitics
A SPORTING LEGACY TO RECKON WITH
The Most Incredible Olympic Stories
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August 2021
Geopolitics
DRONE TECH: INDIA'S JOHNNY COME-LATELY MOMENT
Instead of ruing the missed opportunities of the past, India should instead, take advantage of a late start and focus on critically needed anti-drone technologies using collaboration, besides an innovative model of public-private partnership including encouraging entrepreneurship development in this sphere. We should start now, asserts MAJ GEN RS MEHTA
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August 2021
Geopolitics
RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES: INVESTMENT AND INNOVATION FOR INDIA'S FUTURE
Innovation and scientific discovery are in the company’s DNA. From the development of the guidance computer for the Apollo-11 spacecraft that landed on the moon to the environment satellite systems that help predict the weather, Raytheon Technologies continues to be at the forefront of new and emerging technologies in service to customers, explains DAN DARNELL, Vice President, Global Solutions, Raytheon Intelligence & Space
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August 2021
Geopolitics
CRUISE MISSILES: A RAPIDLY EVOLVING CAPABILITY
Unlike heavyweight ballistic missiles which have larger CEP and can be used for devastating nuclear strikes on enemy cities, cruise missiles are lightweight, tremendously manoeuvrable and highly accurate, explains AMARTYA SINHA
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August 2021
Geopolitics
THE DRONE THREAT: AN UNMANNED REALITY
The drone threat is real and is far more difficult to neutralize than a modern fighter. Stealth and low cost of drones makes it an extremely affordable weapon in the hands of disgruntled non-state actors, argues TEJ PRAKASH SRIVASTAVA
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August 2021
Geopolitics
SARS COVID: OF DEFENCE PROCUREMENTS
There is a Sars Covid in the system that is adversely impacting India’s defence procurement. It is time for the country wake up to fight this pandemic, writes MAHESH RAMACHANDRAN
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August 2021
Geopolitics
INDIA TIGHTENS ITS BORDER SECURITY BELT
Amid hyper activities by Chinese PLA all along the Line of Actual Control, the Centre is creating a “border belt” comprising all the police stations adjoining the frontiers that will act as a second line of defence after respective frontier guarding forces across the land border with various countries.
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August 2021
Geopolitics
THE VERSATILITY OF DRONES (SORRY, UAVS)
The government needs to quickly take the decision to buy and manufacture UAVs and UUVs for strengthening the country’s defensive capabilities. This will require the armed services to move away from their Cold War-era thinking on how to conduct warfare, writes AMIT GUPTA
10+ min |
August 2021
Geopolitics
Theaterisation & The Joint Military Doctrine
There needs to be a legal framework under which the military reorganisation should take place. At present the CDS functions in a legal vacuum
10 min |
July 2021
Geopolitics
India Invites Israeli Companies To Invest In Defence Corridors
Sanjay Jaju, Additional Secretary (DP), Ministry of Defence, Govt of India has said that there are a lot of mechanisms that have strengthened the bilateral cooperation in the field of defence between India and Israel.
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July 2021
Geopolitics
Time For A Shift In The National Security Paradigm
New Delhi-centric approach towards national security needs a long-delayed change, with state governments and Union Territories playing an important role. And in this, north-eastern states should be allowed to show the way
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July 2021
Geopolitics
KEEL OF SECOND PROJECT-1135.6 FRIGATE LAID
The ships under construction at Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL) are part of indigenous shipbuilding programme being executed under Inter Governmental Agreement (IGA) with Russian Side for construction of two advanced frigates for the Indian Navy
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July 2021
Geopolitics
PIERCING THE DARKNESS THROUGH NIGHT VISION DEVICES
From fighter pilots and tank crews to ground infantrymen and special forces troopers, all active personnel require latest generation helmet-mounted and handheld Night Vision Devices (NVDs) and Thermal Imagers (TIs) as per situational and operational requirements
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July 2021
Geopolitics
THE LADY, THE TATMADAW AND MYANMAR
If Myanmar’s South Asian neighbours abstained from the June 18 UNGA vote, the nation did not have irreconcilable issues with any of them, and was not any less undemocratic than fellow-members in the ASEAN – which as a grouping has also been engaging the military rulers to restore normalcy. The West, which has had no problem in working with other autocratic ASEAN members on multiple political, economic and strategic fronts is also yet to study and understand the psyche and character of Myanmar as a nation, where post-coup military rulers may now be waiting out Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, 76, for recommencing a democracy process that they are comfortable with
10+ min |
July 2021
Geopolitics
Israel Shipyards presents flexible commercial options
Israel Shipyards Ltd. has presented, for the first time at IMDEC, its flexible commercial options to meet the new economic reality.
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July 2021
Geopolitics
HOT WHEELS: TOWARDS A HIGHLY MOBILE ARMY
While the Indian Army has a significantly large fleet of trucks and utility vehicles, there is a need to further augment the capabilities by adding latest vehicles with better fuel-efficiency, faster speeds, larger wheelbases and enhanced axle-load bearing capacities
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July 2021
Geopolitics
GOODBYE BAGRAM
Bagram Air Base—the mysterious airfield 60 km outside Kabul, where Air Force One landed in the dark of the night has been handed over to the Kabul Government. In a way it signals the exit of America from the ‘forever war’ in Afghanistan. The airbase is a singular sign of the government’s writ. Kabul will do everything in its power to retain the base while the Taliban eyes it as a key asset to be wrested.
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July 2021
Geopolitics
Defence Secretary inducts ALH Mk-III helicopters into ICG
In a major boost to the ALH Mk-III indigenous Coast Guard programme, three Advanced Light Helicopter (ALHs) manufactured by HAL were inducted into the stables of Indian Coast Guard (ICG) by Dr Ajay Kumar, Defence Secretary in June.
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