A TIMES OF INDIA PRESENTATION INDIAN NAVY DAY SPECIAL As the nation celebrates Navy Day this month, experts emphasise future-proofing the Indian Navy CHARTING THE PROJECT 75(I) A MILITARY TOOL ROAD AHEAD AND SP MODEL OF DIPLOMACY COMMODORE SUJEET COMMODORE ANIL JAI SINGH Dr RK TYAGI SAMADDAR (Retd) IN ( Retd) CONTENTS INDIAN NAVY: 02 THE ROAD AHEAD A TIMES OF INDIA Future proofing is a crucial task PRESENTATION for the Indian Navy, and for this, l MANAGING EDITOR it is crucial to understand the role VISHESH PRAKASH of the industry and disruptive l ASSISTANT EDITOR POOJA MADHOK technologies l EDITORIAL TEAM YASMIN TAJ DIPIKA RATHI KAMINI KULSHRESHTHA NEHA BHATIA l CHIEF GRAPHIC EDITOR MUKESH ARORA l DESIGN TEAM PROJECT 75(I) AND DINESH VIST, MAHESH BISHT, 32 THE SP MODEL SUSHIL DUBEY, ASHOK SHARMA Project 75(I) was slated MARKETING INDIAN NAVY: RUNNING l NATIONAL VERTICAL HEAD as the first programme SHWETA ARORA 10 BEFORE THE WIND [email protected] under the Strategic l PROJECT COORDINATOR Indigenisation Plan 2015-2030 Partnership Model PEEUSH SRIVASTAVA [email protected] is the guideline document for the navy’s plans to meet the l PRODUCTION COORDINATION MUKESH MALIK demands of the future UTTAM ACHARYA Published by: Rajeev Yadav for the proprietors, Bennett, Coleman & Co. 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Ltd highlight the need for Pictures used in the magazine are for coastal surveillance representational purposes only. NAVAL UTILITY 38 HELICOPTER PROGRAMME A watershed programme for Indian A&D ecosystem, NUH BLUE ECONOMY AND programme is envisaged 18 MARITIME INTERESTS to be included in Strategic Partnership Securing India’s maritime Mode interests and harnessing the ‘Blue Economy’ are the missions that the nation needs to pursue COVER STORY INDIAN NAVY: THE ROAD AHEAD! Future proofing is a crucial task for the Indian Navy, and for this, it is important to understand the role of the industry and disruptive technologies two ahead after induction. This requires revolution in military affairs and the consistently believed in being a ‘builder's early recognition of emerging disruptive associated disruptive technology exist. navy’, it is no surprise that 41 ships and technologies that potentially can bring about Industry 1.0 replaced sails and wooden hulls submarines are on order, another 22 ships yet another revolution in military affairs. In with steam and steel even as canons and are under advanced stage of negotiations for the combat arena, a disruptive technology guns made fodder of swordsmen and cavalry. r Commodore Sujeet contract conclusion and 17 ships are awaiting changes the dynamics of conflict or Industry 2.0 introduced electric power and Samaddar (Retd) technology tie-ups to build in India. competition in ways that are revolutionary, revolutionised sensors and communications However, whilst shipbuilding expertise has profound and unexpected and radically systems. Industry 3.0 brought in digital he Indian Navy has been created, the building blocks of the modifies the concept of operations, defines technologies which had broad spectrum always been a highly constituent elements of float, move and fight requirements of new skills, capabilities and applications and was characterised by a Ttech-savvy and remain a work in progress. Systems, sensors capacities, impacts the national defence fusion of technologies impacting forward looking force. This is and machinery that go into these elements industrial complex which in turn finally multifarious industries and naval operations closely intertwined with its organisational need to be carefully forecast to keep ahead of changes the strategic naval balance between in terms of unprecedented scale, size and culture, its operational character and its the technology curve and must also remain nations. speed of execution. These technological work ethos. Steered by a leadership that operationally relevant for at least a decade or In warfare, several precedents of the disruptions challenged the incremental 2 | ET Defence | December 2017 December 2017 | ET Defence | 3 driven warfare as it gives the decision footprint and radiated signature. For maker access to real time broad industry, these are signals of alarm spectrum artificial intelligence, Decoding the impacting shipbuilding steel demand assisted/aided decision-making and also pointers where new business command and control systems backed destructive opportunities are headed. Future by Big Data, machine learning, technologies materials will facilitate additive cognitive computing, ultra-high speed manufacturing which could potentially computer processing and secure First, technologies that ‘print’ spares or even ammunition at transmission technologies. These could drive information and sea and these technologies in turn will disruptively change the navy’s existing communications which are impact the way navies have looked at Combat Management System (CMS) critical elements in maintenance and logistics to support architecture, the sensor-shooter designing the battle space fleets at sea. Such a transformation has interfaces, the network of networks and conduct of war itself an immense impact on the electronics into a spatially distributive and yet Second, technologies that and telecommunications industry, the temporarily concentrated force will reconfigure future metals business, on welding generation and application architecture forces like ultra-powerful, technologies and even cables looms and riding on cloud computing and IoT. In ultra-light, ultra-conductive harnesses business, all of which may turn, this will spawn cyber-attack meta materials, polymers, not be able to survive this innovation. systems and interference prevention alloys and composites A third basket of disruptive technologies opening a new frontier in technologies is the Autonomous - combat and presenting some challenges Third, the autonomous- Vehicle (AV) space that would leverage and opportunity for industry. This vehicle space that would new innovations in Robotics, transformation to a real time data- leverage innovations in Automation and Miniaturisation to driven, evidence based decision making robotics, automation and offer a viable means of operating in process will lead away from the current miniaturisation to offer circumstances where both enemy reactive and diagnostic Maritime means of operating in action and environmental hazards Domain Awareness (MDA) to a circumstances where both prevent forces from entering an area of proactive cognitive Maritime Theatre enemy action and interest. For example, the suspected, Dominance (MTD) combat suite. But environmental hazards threatened or confirmed presence of model of product improvement by combat. The potential disruptive space, where much of this disruption prevent forces from nuclear, biological or chemical (NBC) industry and its adoption by the navy. technologies for maritime would reside, will be increasingly entering an area of interest hazards or mines would place severe As the world stands at the threshold communications could include high congested, contested, and competitive constraints on the operational of industry 4.0, it is once again a new throughput satellite communications, and thus space based systems would be flexibility of forces and impose un- basket of disruptive technologies that big data analytics, machine learning subject to denial, degradation, or acceptable exposure to risk. This key will impact naval operations and and robotics, and new methods of destruction to snip the ‘network of future forces are ultra-powerful, ultra- disruption will transfer risk from redefine requirements of machinery, securely sharing operational networks’ on which future navies would light, ultra-conductive meta materials, sailors employed in hazardous For R&D and academia, weapons, equipment, sensors and information through enterprise grade rely. At the other end deep sea polymers, alloys and composites. operations to machines thus, it is imperative that communications which would neither security architectures. Once blue laser technologies may spur a whole new Potentially, hulls of future ships may be fundamentally redefining the art of the fresh and specialised permit industry nor navies simply technology is mastered to link suite of sea based surveillance and graphene based whilst composite possible in future combat operations talent are nurtured, and doing ‘more of the same’ to remain in submerged submarines with response systems integrating pre- content could increase in that are not daunted by the prospect of appropriate test and lab business or in the reckoning in war. collaborating aircraft and can