Category: MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES OF THIS CENTURY
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A Fireside Chat With Gen Anil Chauhan, CDS
Gen Anil Chauhan visited IIT Madras recently. I had a fireside chat with him. It was very meaningful and useful discussion with a thinking General. See for yourself.
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TV9 Panel Discussion on Agni V
I was part of a TV9 panel discussion on Agni V and MIRVs. An interesting program conducted professionally by Sandeep Unnithan.
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Recollections of Working Under Dr APJ Abdul Kalam and Mr Manohar Parrikar
I had the opportunity to work with two great men of India at a time when Change was happening, In many ways l learnt immensely from the experiences. The interaction with Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was in my formative years of service and that with Mr Manohar Parrikar was towards the end of my service.…
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The Rise Of Rockets in Recent Conflicts
Firepower is delivered by three means essentially – aircraft, guns and rockets/missiles. The most noticeable thing has been that the use of rockets in recent conflicts has gone up significantly. Rockets and missiles of various variety have been used for many purposes including coercion, as a tool of power and conveying nuclear ambiguity. This is…
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INDIA’S CHANGED OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND DEFENCE PLANNING
The traditional 2.5 front has changed, wars have become hybrid, the battlefield dynamics have changed and, weapons systems which impact the battle field have changed. In such circumstances our defense planning must also change. Are we anywhere near doing it? Maj Gen R Narayanan (R) and I discussed all the issues connected with all these factors.…
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Development and Deployment of Unmanned Aerial Systems in India
Sandeep Unnithan, Editor News9 Live and I had a great discussion on unmanned aerial systems in India holistically. The procurement of the MQ9 Reaper from USA meets today’s requirement and is the need of the hour. However it represents a collective failure of our national security system in having foreseen the problem and doing nothing…
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The Layers Between a Chip and an App
There is lot of buzz in the air that Chip manufacturing will start in India. However putting up a fab will not solve our issues. It is only the first step. India needs to take many more steps in the layers which exist between a chip and the app. Vijay and I discuss this in our…
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Gunners Shot Tech
I have started a new tech channel called Gunners Shot Tech. In this channel I will cover trends in military and emerging disruptive technologies. You may like to subscribe to it @ http://www.youtube.com/@GunnersShotTech-jl6gp
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AI & DATA FUSION IN MULTI DOMAIN OPERATIONS
In this video, we have explored as to how AI can be put to use to fuse data from multiple sources to produce a holistic picture in multi domain operations. This is the future and one needs to get their hands dirty if we have to stay in the game. I hope those who want…
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