Modern war zone is full of hazards but military commanders are often worried about the safety of their soldiers and how effectively the operational readiness can be ensured without compromising the swiftness of the battle formations. Indeed, technology is ensuring that unmanned ground vehicles can be handy and operate in most lethal battlefield conditions without any pause despite the fact that it can be targeted by the enemy cross fire and aerial assault. These days… Read More »Use of UGV in warzone

In modern war, the role of precision guided munition is increasingly being optimized by the military commanders to avoid collateral damages which helps overcoming the pitfall of public opinion as war causes lot of unwanted damages. In fact, the evolution of new technologies has, in many ways, changed what defines a precision weapon. For the first quarter of the 21st Century, the military commanders are looking not only for weapons that can hit a specific… Read More »Precision guided munition

It is the height of irony that a Navy that is far short in weapons platforms that it requires to defend the nation should find itself confronted with a mismatch between arrival of platform and delivery of sensors and subsystems. If we have one we don’t have the other appears to be the ongoing syndrome for Indian Navy. For example, India has floated the first of the Scorpene class of French submarines but it has… Read More »Development of torpedoes

Ever since the escape of more than 500 Taliban fighters from a high security prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in April 2011 through a sophisticated tunnel built from the outside I had predicted that the technology would be used by Pakistan to cut tunnels into India under the barbedwire fence that had been erected from Gujarat in the south to Jammu and Kashmir in the north. The logic for this prediction was that Pakistan enjoyed very… Read More »Art of tunneling

Conceived as an armored adjunct to the main battle tank for rapid manoeuvre warfare in the mechanized infantry mode the infantry combat vehicle is fast acquiring acceptability in the urban guerrilla warfare counter-insurgency format. Created to induct ‘boots on the ground’ to capture and hold territory the intention was to ensure that both elements moved in close support of each other and were thus required to be both armored and able to maintain a cross-country… Read More »Infantry combat vehicle

The procurement of Intermediate Jet Trainers for the Indian Air Force has once again crashed into the shoal of an inadequate engine, an inherent asymmetry in the superstructure, and the proverbial monopolistic instincts of the sole aircraft manufacturer, the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. Once again, for the umpteenth time, a foreign engine was acquired to build the urgently required Intermediate Jet Trainer. A French Snecma engine was chosen. It proved to be under-powered. A more powerful… Read More »Trainer aircraft requiremen

Russian military scientists are on the verge of making a new type of undersea weapon, looking like a submarine drone, that can travel undetected underwater and launch strikes in deep sea and at ports as well as coastal targets. This weapon which Russia is building could be a drone submarine to deliver large-scale nuclear weapons against harbors and coastal cities as some Pentagon officials believe is a new concept. The developmental unmanned underwater vehicle, or… Read More »A new submarine

Since the nature and contour of the 21st century battlefield is changing very fast, the rapid introduction of new technologies and state of the art research and development in this segment could alter the present approach by invigorating the soldiers into a superhuman who will fight the war on ground. Soldier modernization programs have often focused on equipping soldiers with new technology in the simple belief that more information and functionality will result in a… Read More »Soldier modernization

The Indian Navy has acquired the laudable distinction of converting itself from a ‘buyer’s Navy’ into a ‘builder’s Navy’ by dint of steady accretion of design capabilities in warship building since the establishment of the Directorate of Naval Constructions in 1954. Today all 46 of a wide mix of different-sized warships from aircraft carrier to submarines to fast attack vessels, are being constructed in Indian shipyards. Its success lies in the culture of commitment to… Read More »Warship construction

New generation radars and Electronic Warfare technologies are changing the face of the battlefield which will witness a massive revolution in military affairs in coming decades that weapons of hitech warfare can be launched without sound, fire and smoke but can be radically destructive in nature. Indeed, in the arena of EW scenario, the evolution of the electromagnetic spectrum is much more agile and complicated than what it used to be 50 years ago, and… Read More »EW technologies