Defending territory | |
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SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2015: China has fallen back on an old blueprint to keep India unbalanced. It has revived the insurgencies in the North-east and extended the proxy war to India’s western sector, giving the Pakistan Army encouragement to exacerbate tensions by frequent violations of the ceasefire and deadly cross-LoC attacks. The statement during the Ufa summit in Russia that there is insufficient evidence to jail the persons indicted by |
Autonomous warriors | |
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JULY-AUGUST 2015: Militaries around the
world are looking for ways to introduce armoured unmanned ground
vehicles to protect the soldier from boobytraps and improvised |
Doubt persists | |
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MAY-JUNE 2015: After an out of box , surprise solution was evolved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Paris in mid-April for urgently meeting the fighter requirements of the IAF. A high level negotiating team from India headed by Air Marshal SBP Sinha from the Air Headquarters is in the advanced stage of the negotiations with the French team. |
Slow pace | |
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MARCH-APRIL 2015: Though the sanction for 814 artillery guns worth Rs 15,750 crore (US$ 2.56 billion) was cleared last November, by the Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar headed Defence |
Boosting synergy | |
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JAN-FEB 2015: The Indian armed forces have been acquainted with the “air-land battle” concept since 1987 when General K Sundarji conducted the massive deployment of air |
Enemy in backyard | |
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DECEMBER 2014: There is no way that
the Government of India can expedite the acquisition of submarines and
anti-submarine assets even if it raids the gold filled vaults of the
Thirumalai |
Seamless thrust | |
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NOVEMBER 2014: The pace of electronic warfare is changing rapidly and in future it may assume a new dimension in which individual soldiers can conduct the war proceedings |
Stepping stone | |
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OCTOBER 2014: India has created a splendid space history with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully inserting the Rs 4500-million Indian Mars Orbiter spacecraft into |
Screaming to kill | |
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SEPTEMBER 2014: With the advent of new
technologies in armament production, a range of new generation weapons
which can travel more than Mach 5 is giving new thrill to militaries
around |
Generating thrust | |
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AUGUST 2014: The process for the finalization of the contract for the acquisition of 126 combat aircraft under the MMRCA (Medium, Multirole Combat Aircraft) tender by sealing the deal with |