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“The Runway to a Billion Opportunities”
Aero India is a business opportunity event.
During the Aero India Show, numerous manufacturers and service providers from the Indian and foreign aerospace and aviation industry (including big international companies, domestic companies, MSMEs, and startups, both from private and public sectors) would get a chance to showcase their products, meet the potential buyers and finalise deals.
The airshow also provides ideas about new technologies, platforms, weapons, and systems.
New Technologies that are influencing warfare in general and air warfare in particular are:-
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- Quantum computing – the ability to compute and handle data.
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- Space-based internet – Data availability (Speed & Capacity).
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- Hypersonics – expanding the zone of combat in both offensive and defensive operations.
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- AI + Robotics + Miniaturisation – Unmanned platforms in all domains of air, sea, and land.
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- Networked environment.
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- Virtual Reality + Artificial Reality + 3D Holography.
Some of the future opportunities for the defence and aviation companies are:-
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- Unmanned Platforms in land, sea, and air domain.
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- Drones and Swarms.
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- Anti-drone systems.
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- Combination of manned and unmanned platforms (Loyal wingman concept).
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New Generation platforms (6th/7th generation) – maybe space capable.
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Multi-domain, multi-sensor ISR systems.
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- AI-based systems (with decision support and what-if options).
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AI-enabled networked solutions for data collection, analysis, planning, dissemination, and monitoring.
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- Smart Weapons with the following capabilities:-
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- Standoff.
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- precision.
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- shoot and scoot.
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- Fire and forget.
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- Search and strike.
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- Selective targeting.
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- multi-target engagement.
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- Protective infrastructure – Protection from kinetic weapons, hypersonic weapons, and CBRN (Chemical, biological, radiation, and nuclear) attacks.
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- Survivability enhancement systems –
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- Armour plating.
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- EW systems.
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- Deception measures.
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The air show theme, “The Runway to a Billion Opportunities”, aptly describes it.
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