Weapon Platforms
‘Project Zorawar’ Light Tank: A New Sentinel For India’s High-Altitude Borders!
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By Brig Arvind Dhananjayan (Retd)
India’s Military Satellites: The Armed Forces’ Bulwarks For Communication & Surveillance!
The Indian Land Forces’ pursuit for a dedicated orbital communications platform is finally seeing fructification. In order to equip the Indian Army (IA) with a dedicated advanced communications satellite, the…
By Brig Arvind Dhananjayan (Retd)
Hypersonic Missiles With Heat-Seeking Technology
The confrontation between Ukraine and Russia is not showing any signs of a ceasefire or end to hostilities. Russia has used its Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missile against multiple targets of…
By Prof (Dr) DK Pandey
India’s Quest For A Reliable Assault Rifle
In the modern contactless hi-tech warfare, do assault rifles really make that difference? This is a question stuck on the minds of many. In an era of battlefield dominance by…
By Col Danvir Singh (Retd)
Jet Pack Suits: Indian Army Soldier Goes Hi-Tech
The futuristic Indian Infantry soldiers wearing Jet-Suits could soon be seen patrolling along the borders with China and Pakistan. The Special Forces troopers with strapped-on gas turbine jet packs would…
By Col Danvir Singh (Retd)
Distributed Acoustic Sensing: Detection Of Adversary Fires Through Battlefield Fog!
Source-microflown-avisa.com Sound ranging (SR) systems have been the traditional bulwark for locating enemy artillery since World War I. Modern SR systems are also capable of extending such locating capability to…
By Brig Arvind Dhananjayan (Retd)
Shipborne Unmanned Aerial Systems: Extending India’s Maritime Reach
In keeping with the requirement to enhance the Indian Navy’s (IN) maritime intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) capabilities, the Indian Armed Forces’ Technology Perspective & Capability Roadmap, a…
By Brig Arvind Dhananjayan (Retd)
Logistics Drones For The Indian Army
“Mountains are the acid test of logistics- the ability of Armies to provide sustenance and maintain warfighting potential is nowhere more tenuous” - By the Author…
By Brig Arvind Dhananjayan (Retd)
Hybrid UAVs: The Advent of Responsive Combat Capability
Sometime in April 2022, TechEagle, a private start-up firm involved in drone-based logistics, launched the ‘Vertiplane-X3’, claimed to be the fastest hybrid e-VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) indigenous Unmanned Aerial…
By Brig Arvind Dhananjayan (Retd)
‘Cis-Lunar’ Space: The New Military Battleground!
“There is no battle arena that favours mobility, strategic brilliance and lethality more than Space!” - By the Author Mankind, has, till very recently, looked at the spheroidal area of…
By Brig Arvind Dhananjayan (Retd)
India’s MRFA Program: Seeking To Conquer The Skies!
The looming spectre of a collusive, two-front war with China and Pakistan, has necessitated the Indian Armed Forces to plan and carry out quantitative/qualitative right-sizing of their equipment profile to…
By Brig Arvind Dhananjayan (Retd)
India’s Ballistic Missile Interceptors!
India’s Nuclear Policy of ‘No First Use’ behoves that the Nation is prepared to absorb a first strike and still retain capabilities for similar retaliation. Retaining such ‘second-strike’ capability will…
By Brig Arvind Dhananjayan (Retd)
