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BLUESKIES PODCAST: CHAT WITH GANA

Had an interesting Chat with Gana (PR Ganapathy) on anything and everything about IAF, and thoroughly enjoyed chatting with him.

 

From Blueskies podcast post on Youtube:-

In this episode, we speak to Air Mshl Anil Khosla, who recently retired as Vice Chief of Air Staff. Besides his experiences as a young officer, we focus on the role he played in the Doklam stand-off (when he was C-in-C Eastern Air Command) and the strike at Balakot (when he was Vice Chief). We also discuss the pros and cons of indigenous vs imported weapons platforms, the future of air war, and the Air Force’s talent strategy, among other things.

 

For selective listening:-

00:00:00 – 00:01:00 Introduction

00:01:00 – 00:13:14 Initial journey into IAF

00:13:14 – 00:16:01 Doklam incident

00:16:01 – 00:19:09 How to deal with China

00:19:09 – 00:28:46 Balakot

00:28:46 – 00:43:46 Maintain a tech edge

00:43:46 – 00:53:30 Future of air war

00:53:30 – 01:00:00 Finding talent for the IAF

 

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INDIAN AIR FORCE ALWAYS SUPPORTS ATMANIRBHARTA (Part 2)

Written by: Air Marshal M Matheswaran AVSM VM PhD (Retd)

Chairman & President,      

The Peninsula Foundation

Chennai                             

 

The IAF has been an ardent supporter of indigenisation since independence. Indigenisation involves not just design and production alone, as commonly perceived. It has a lot more effectiveness and importance when seen from the perspective of self-sustenance and indigenous solutions. These are enumerated below as various examples of success stories:-

 

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INDIAN AIR FORCE ALWAYS SUPPORTS ATMANIRBHARTA

(Self-Reliance, Indigenisation and Make in India)

 

Indian Air Force has always encouraged the development of indigenous defence production capability. IAF firmly believes that indigenisation reduces our dependence on foreign sources and leads to the economic growth of the nation. IAF always endeavours to achieve self-sufficiency through focussed, sustained and evolved indigenisation programmes. It is one of the key result areas of the IAF.

 

Indian Air Force has always played an important role in creating an aerospace ecosystem in India. IAF has been operating indigenously built aircraft and also aircraft built in India under licence production. This has given impetus to indigenous industry in the past.

 

Indigenised Inductions and Projects

 

Various Indigenised inductions and projects being supported by the IAF are as follows:-

 

  • Induction of LCA (IOC, FOC, Mk I and Mk 1A) and support to LCA Mk II and AMCA.
  • Induction of Ajeet and HF-24 Marut ac in the past.
  • Induction of AEW&C ac and support to indigenous AWACS project.
  • Induction of indigenous helicopter ALH and support to LCH.
  • Induction of Trainer aircraft (Kiran Mk I and Mk II, HT-2, HPT & HTT-40 aircraft).
  • Support to replacement of Avro ac through make in India route.
  • Induction and support to several indigenous radars. (Indira, Rohini, Arudhra and Long range surveillance radar)
  • Induction of surface-to-air guided weapons like Akash SRSAM system and support to MRSAM and LRSAM projects.
  • Integration and operationalization of Astra Air to Air Missile and Brahmos Air to surface missiles.
  • Support to weapons projects like New Generation Anti-tank Missile, Smart anti-airfield weapons, new generation anti-radiation missiles and Glide bombs etc.
  • Support to CIWS project through the make-in-India route.
  • Indigenous production of chaffs and flares, ammunitions and fuses for bombs.
  • Indigenous network solutions like Integrated Air Command & Control System (IACCS), logistics management system (IMMOLS) etc.

 

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