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Vayu Issue V Sep Oct 2018 V/2018 Aerospace & Defence Review The IAF at 86 In Defence of the Rafale Interview with the CAS Air Combat Enablers Indian Women (Air) Power Out of Africa SAF-AP LEAP-INDIA-210x297-GB-V3.indd 1 18/08/2017 15:50 V/2018 V/2018 Aerospace & Defence Review 32 Interview 98 Out of Africa with the CAS The IAF at 86 In Defence of the Rafale Interview with the CAS Air Combat Enablers Indian Women (Air) Power Out of Africa Marshal BS Dhanoa gave a special address on the rationale behind the Cover : Pair of Dassault Rafales fully loaded Rafale acquisition programme as also with long range tanks and weaponry on the IAF’s modernisation roadmap. (photo : Rafale International) Air Combat Enablers This evocative article looks back to 42 the early 1960s when the Indian Air EDITORIAL PANEL Force deployed a flight of Canberra MANAGING EDITOR interdictor bombers to central Africa, in support of the United Nations in Vikramjit Singh Chopra In Vayu’s interview with Air Chief the Congo. As part of the motley ‘UN EDITORIAL ADVISOR Marshal BS Dhanoa, the CAS Air Force’, the IAF turned the tables, emphasised that the case for 114 new Admiral Arun Prakash providing the UN with their real ‘force fighters will be progressed through the multipliers’. The article includes some EDITORIAL PANEL Strategic Partnership route and as per very rare images then taken by Air Chapter VII of the DPP-16. The Chief Pushpindar Singh Marshal (retd) SC Lal. also refered to the FRA and AEW&C Air Marshal Brijesh Jayal requirement and importantly, on the Air Vice Marshal Manmohan Bahadur Raptors on a roll Dr. Manoj Joshi procurement of 83 LCA Mk.1As for writes on the equally important need 81 Lt. Gen. Kamal Davar the IAF. for combat enablers, specifically Lt. Gen. BS Pawar flight refueling aircraft and AWACS platforms, without which the IAF would Air Marshal M. Matheswaran The Indian 36 be severely handicapped in bringing Gp Capt JC Malik Air Force at 86 force to bear in an optimal manner. Cdr M Nirmal Monica Arora 44 Indian Women Nitin Konde (Air) Power Sayan Majumdar Sameer Joshi Richard Gardner (UK) In August 2018, 12 Lockheed F-22 Reuben Johnson (USA) Raptors were on deployment to Bertrand de Boisset (France) the United States Air Force Europe Dr Nick Evesenkin (Russia) (USAFE) in Germany, and later made In his concern of the IAF’s declining visits to Norway, Greece, Spain, Tamir Eshel (Israel) squadron strength, Sanjay Badri- Romania and Poland, truly a summer ADVERTISING & MARKETING MANAGER Maharaj looks at various options and tour of arguably the world’s most advanced 5th generation fighter. Husnal Kaur the challenges facing the Service. Listing the IAF’s current inventory of BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER combat squadrons, he believes that Also : China’s Indigenous AWACS; Premjit Singh the delays and lack of focus on the LCA Army 2018 International Military programme has been the main cause Technical Forum; Vostok 2018; of the declining strength. Referring to Nammo’s .338 Lapua Magum Story; UBLISHED Y what he terms as the ‘MMRCA 2.0’, Centennial of the Azerbaijani Air P B the author feels that India’s selection of Force; Aviadarts 2018; APROC Vayu Aerospace Pvt. Ltd. new fighter will depend on capabilities 2018; Dornier 328s at Farnborough; E-52, Sujan Singh Park, offered as also technology transfer and The Dakota returns ‘Home’ and cost-effectiveness. honouring Air Marshal GD Sharma. New Delhi 110 003 India Indian women are now flying combat Tel: +91 11 24617234 fighters with the Indian Air Force, Fax: +91 11 24628615 31 (Air) Defence of the their ranks being slowly augmented Regular features : e-mail: [email protected] Realm (Rafale) as additional batches are trained for Commentary, Viewpoint, Geo-Politics, e-mail: [email protected] A special seminar on IAF Force Structure the purpose, writes Nitin Konde. Aviation & Defence in India, World 2035 was hosted by the Centre for Air Meanwhile the neighbourhood also has Aviation & Defence News, Ancient Power Studies at New Delhi on 12 women flying fighters, both in Pakistan Aviator Anecdotes, Vayu 25 Years Back, Printed at Aegean Offset Printers September 2018. The CAS Air Chief and China. Tale Spin. The opinions expressed in the articles published in the Vayu Aerospace & Defence Review do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Publishers. Follow us on @ReviewVayu Visit us at: www.vayuaerospace.in C O M M E N T A R Y Space Administration (or NASA) in the US, Indian space At last: some guns, missiles and research has always focused completely on unmanned helicopters missions. Moving to a manned programme will involve research and development of a whole new range of he Defence Ministry’s big-bang announcement on its approval technologies. Apart from the unquantifiable benefit of of purchases worth Rs 46,000 crores for guns, missiles and T inspiring young scientists with a new set of goals and boosting helicopters must please India’s military. Any focused purchase national pride, there are concrete benefits to putting human of sophisticated defence systems like missiles and combat-ready beings in space. helicopters must go towards propping up preparedness, which is That’s because space stations and habitats are tightly a primary task to be handled, besides being the price to pay for contained ecospheres, presenting conditions that cannot securing our freedom and protecting our borders. It’s quite another be simulated anywhere on Earth. These are low-gravity, or matter that the timing lends itself easily to this being a sop in military microgravity environments, conducive to all sorts of research trade and ties with the United States, as the 2+2 India strategic that cannot be performed within a gravity well. Space dialogue featuring the US secretary of state and the defence secretary ecospheres are surrounded by conditions extremely hostile and their Indian counterparts (was) just over a week away. While to life. Space may be very cold (a few degrees above absolute Russia remains India’s top military supplier and is also to supply the zero) or very hot (above 300 degree Celsius). A manned $5 billion S-400 Triumf air defence missile system, the approvals for spacecraft must be adequately shielded against radiation the current US purchases will balance India’s strategic ties. and deal with both heat and cold, often at the same time. The Rs 46,000-crore deal may be mild compared to what the Space is airless, and a near-vacuum. A space ecosphere must Rafale deal would potentially do for the Air Force, which is in not only contain an oxygen atmosphere, it must contain its desperate need of squadrons and fit-to-fly fighters and bombers. The own food and water, and it must contain the equipment deals, however, also encompass several proposals for the ‘Make in required to recycle waste products such as carbon dioxide, India’ initiative, including 111 utility and surveillance helicopters for urine and excreta to extract oxygen, water and food. These the Navy, besides multi-role copters for submarine warfare intent. facts also point to the challenges that such a programme The initiative itself has not truly taken off, nor paid good dividends must surmount. Living in space is a highly risky business over the years despite efforts made by successive governments to and there have been a fair number of disasters in manned indigenise arms production. A large portion of India’s purchases programmes in the past. as the fifth biggest defence spender in the world are still to be paid There are other concrete benefits to manned programmes. for in foreign exchange. The $6.5 billion deals may be minuscule One is simply that human beings can improvise on the fly if for US defence manufacturers, but the industry does not scoff at an unexpected situation arises or there is an opportunity to any business coming its way. At a time of some dissent over trade observe something unusual. We are only beginning to learn thanks to the declaration of trade wars by Donald Trump against the effects of microgravity and cosmic radiation on bio- the rest of the world, such arms procurement must help bilateral ties. organisms ranging from bacteria and plants to large mammals. The very fact that India is considering arms purchases with There’s room for an enormous range of experiments in this greater ease now is a relief. The Indian defence ministry has been regard and some of the research at the International Space tied down by such inhibitions in the wake of the accusations over Station has already started paying off in concrete terms. Bofors bribes that there have been an atmosphere of fear ruling Over the years, blue skies space research has led to huge arms purchases for 30 years. A UPA defence minister had taken advances in multiple technologies ranging from weather this to such an extreme that nothing moved in terms of defence research to disaster management to ballpoint pens. Modern preparedness for years. Given the history, the announcement communications depend on satellites. Putting humans into coming well before any of the earmarked funds lapsing at the end space has also led to massive advances in medical technology of a financial term is to be welcomed. A pitiful paralysis had struck and the basic understanding of how our bodies work. defence deals for a while. But, even at a time when they are being Creating habitable space ecospheres requires a host of done to take care of defence needs, the poisonous atmosphere of technologies, including the development of exotic materials sharp polarisation in our society means that none of this will go and first-class recycling systems.
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