ENHANCED ROLE OF DOMESTIC DEFENCE MANUFACTURERS IN INDIA Production of defence equipment with modern technological trends has always been a challenge for most of the countries in the world. This has resulted in the majority of the nations in the world importing the defence equipment to meet their domestic defence needs. The defence industry has […]
Ashok Kumar
Maj Gen (Dr) Ashok Kumar, VSM (Retd) is a Kargil War veteran, has operational experience both on Pakistan as well as Chinese borders including LOC and LAC. He commanded a formation in the Arunachal Pradesh where 1962 war battles were fought as well as activated during 1987. He is a defence and strategic analyst, Senior Fellow of CLAWS and author of two books- China Betrays Again and Indian Churnings on the Global Stage. He is currently DG of CENJOWS.
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DEFENCE MANUFACTURING IN INDIA
The currently ongoing Aero- india 2023 show in Bangluru has not only showcased the prowess of india in aero and aero- space domain but it has also given an opportunity to look at the defence manufacturing in India afresh. Defence minister’s conclave conducted on the sidelines of this event on 14 Feb 23 was […]
THE TRILOGY OF ‘M’,’R’ AND ‘O’
The Trilogy is defined as set of three activities in any domain which are inter-connected and make the ‘thought’ embedded in these three facets fully complete after the final act. If one looks at three major constituents of MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhauls) ,these also reflect a very well linked subsets of a ‘Trilogy’ which […]
INDIGENISATION OF DEFENCE FORCES: CONNECTING THE DOTS
When the Chinese incursions were reported at multiple locations in Eastern Ladakh in April 2020, it was an obvious deduction that the China problem is going to stay with reasonably higher chances of escalation. It is obvious that Chinese disregarded all bilateral agreements which resulted in Galwan clash wherein unarmed Indian soldiers were attacked by […]
CRYING NEED OF QUALITY ASSURANCE IN DEFENCE EQUIPMENTS
CRYING NEED OF QUALITY ASSURANCE IN DEFENCE EQUIPMENTS Irrespective of the field in which an equipment is used, quality assurance becomes a key consideration for the manufacturer, maintainer and the user. While the manufacturer is concerned about the credibility of the product – both in the short as well as in the long term […]
BATTLE OF SPARES
Though the skirmishes and the local clashes had already commenced between India and China prior to 1962 war but the war itself was formally launched by China on 20 Oct 62 defying the trust and hand holding extended by India including the Panchsheel Agreement and the Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai eco system. China backstabbed India and […]
MRO FOR LAND SYSTEMS IN INDIAN ARMY
MRO FOR LAND SYSTEMS IN INDIAN ARMY Background MRO stands as an acronym of Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul as well as Maintenance & Repair Operations. In either of these constructs, it covers the entire range of war fighting but unfortunately has been relegated to routine activity that too somewhere at one of the lowermost steps […]
TIPPING POINT FOR DISCARD:DEFENCE EQUIPMENT
TIPPING POINT FOR DISCARD: DEFENCE EQUIPMENTS It is no doubt that ‘man behind the machine’ matters but it is equally important to realise that the equipment being stated as machine in this ‘saying’ also matters and matters significantly. It is due to this reason that all the defence forces in the world pay special attention […]
THE TANKS INDIA NEEDS: A NATIONAL NARRATIVE
It was almost 107 years back in Sep 1915 when the first prototype tank weighing 14 tons was developed by the UK and was employed a year later in Sept 1916. Though it was of limited use and not very successful initially, a large No of countries saw its potential and therefore, this is how […]
DRONES AND COUNTER DRONES: CAN INDIA BE A FOUNDRY TO THE WORLD?
DRONES AND COUNTER DRONES: CAN INDIA BE FOUNDRY TO THE WORLD? The recent advent of drones/unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have brought in one of the newest and most important disruptions not only in the war fighting domain but also in the civilian domains. Being a multi use platform including the wide ranging defence applications, the […]