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Smita Purushottam (Retd) resilient— and I to implement it at the earliest as Air Marshal M Matheswaran (Retd) Lt Gen PC Katoch (Retd) foresee it achieving India embarks on its journey to Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd) new milestones in its journey to achieve the strategic autonomy goal Cmde Ranjit B Rai (Retd) attain self-reliance. through self-reliance in defence Cmde Anil Jai Singh (Retd) Cdr KP Sanjeev Kumar (Retd) The last quarter of 2019 and manufacturing. Dr Mathew Simon the early weeks of 2020 saw some It’s a reality that in the near Amit Cowshish action-packed developments in the future, no substantial increase in Sanjay Badri-Maharaj Sameer Joshi Indian defence industry with many defence budget is going to happen. 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COVER PHOTO: INDIAN NAVY ContentsRAKSHA ANIRVEDA VOLUME 2 | ISSUE 8 | JANUARY - MARCH 2020 p10 Army Modernisation: A Reality Check p14 India’s Impending Fighter Aircraft Choices: COVER Finding Elusive Solution? p34 US-India Defence Ties to Gain Fillip with 2424 STORY Industrial Security Annex p44 Israel’s Make with India Strategy p52 Garnering AI For Indian Armed Forces p56 Make in India Inspires JSHL to Participate in Defence Manufacturing p68 Modernisation through Indigenisation in Defence p72 6th Generation Aerial Warfare: Will It be Drone-centric? p76 Transforming Ideas into Reality - Back to the Basics p80 The Journey of a Startup in Indian Defence Industry p86 5G: Choice before India in Post West World Order p90 Role of GIS in National Security p94 Defence Tech Summit 2020 in Line with Make in India p96 Digital Transformation of Defence at Its Core in DefExpo 2020 p98 DEFEXPO SPECIAL COVERAGE LCA (NAVY) ACHIEVES p108 BEL Identies Exports, Offsets as Thrust Areas: Director (Marketing), BEL p112 Role of Optic Fiber Solutions in HISTORIC MILESTONES Development of Indian Markets p116 JSHL: Reliable Partner in India’s Quest for Carrying out the rst arrested landing by an Self-Reliance in Defence Manufacturing indigenous naval prototype LCA aboard INS p126 Navy Day Photo Feature Vikramaditya, India creates historic milestone p130 Appointment p134 Army Day Feature: Through the Lens p136 In News 04 18 28 40 48 DefExpo: Focussing on Interview: Defence India-Japan Security What is Holding Russia’s Indian Navy’s Budget Digital Transformation Secretary Cooperation Make in India Spree? Crunch In today’s geo-political In a tete-e-tete delving As US and China are Amid changing geopolitical Keeping China and scenario, armed forces at length, Dr Ajay Kumar involved in a strategic scenario it’s imperative Pakistan in mind, Indian competition, India and across the world have emphasised on the Japan should engage for both Russia and India Navy requires a larger realised repower and various initiatives taken by in wider and deeper to reinvent their defence budget in 2020 to rise to ghting skills can mean the Government of India cooperation and function cooperation and explore become stronger and to little without digitised to open up as well as together as a stabilising new avenues to strengthen fulll its role in the Indo- integration of every easing the development anchor in the Indo-Pacic the bilateral relations Pacic and support FNOP component in battle and growth of the region to fulll their future operations space defence sector requirements RAKSHA ANIRVEDA JANUARY - MARCH 2020 3 RAKSHA A NIR VEDA ABSOLUTE POWER Digitisation is not just a catchword but a reality that’s staring at defence forces worldwide. Militaries have realised that repower and ghting skills can mean little without digitised integration of every component in the battle space DEFEXPO 2020: FOCUS ON DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF INDIAN DEFENCE By RAKESH KRISHNAN SIMHA n October 1993, a committee headed by the then Scientific Advisor to declared that digitisation of the armed the Defence Minister APJ Abdul Kalam, highlighted the importance of forces was one of the top priorities of digitisation and other critical technologies in the defence sector. According the government. The government said to the report submitted by the committee, “Technology power will raise it planned to create a high capacity the nation to a position of greater strength, militarily and economically.” information network for the Digital It identified critical technologies such as gallium arsenide devices, fibre Army based on state-of-the-art optics, smart weapon subsystems, heavy particle beams, focal plane array technologies of the Indian armed forces. I and hypersonic propulsion for future research and development. Digitisation is not just a catchword but a stark reality that’s staring at defence forces worldwide. Militaries While there were some baby steps is with the arrival of the NarendraModi have realised that firepower and fighting taken by successive administrations in government that there has been a skills can mean little without digitised the field of cutting-edge technologies, it strong focus on digitisation.