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325: AEROINDIA 2023: Impressions & Inferences (Opportunities)

 

 

Theme

 “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:-

 

    • Quantum computing – the ability to compute and handle data.

 

    • Space-based internet – Data availability (Speed & Capacity).

 

    • Hypersonics – expanding the zone of combat in both offensive and defensive operations.

 

    • AI + Robotics + Miniaturisation – Unmanned platforms in all domains of air, sea, and land.

 

    • Networked environment.

 

    • Virtual Reality + Artificial Reality + 3D Holography.

 

Some of the future opportunities for the defence and aviation companies are:-

 

    • Unmanned Platforms in land, sea, and air domain.
      • Drones and Swarms.

 

      • Anti-drone systems.

 

      • Combination of manned and unmanned platforms (Loyal wingman concept).

 

    • New Generation platforms (6th/7th generation) – maybe space capable.

 

    • Multi-domain, multi-sensor ISR systems.

 

    • AI-based systems (with decision support and what-if options).

 

    • AI-enabled networked solutions for data collection, analysis, planning, dissemination, and monitoring.

 

    • Smart Weapons with the following capabilities:-

 

      • Standoff.

 

      • precision.

 

      • shoot and scoot.

 

      • Fire and forget.

 

      • Search and strike.

 

      • Selective targeting.

 

      • multi-target engagement.

 

    •  Protective infrastructure – Protection from kinetic weapons, hypersonic weapons, and CBRN (Chemical, biological, radiation, and nuclear) attacks.

 

    • Survivability enhancement systems –

 

      • Armour plating.

 

      • EW systems.

 

      • Deception measures.

 

The air show theme, “The Runway to a Billion Opportunities”, aptly describes it.

 

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316: TIDBITS

1.

CHINA’S WAY OF THINKING

 

Communist Chinese politics are a lugubrious merry-go-round … and in order to appreciate fully the déjà-vu quality of its latest convolutions, you would need to have watched it revolve for half a century. The main problem with many of our politicians and pundits is that their memories are too short, thus forever preventing them from putting events and personalities in a true historical perspective.

— Simon Leys quoted in Watching China Watching
China Heritage, 2018

 

Comments:

China thinks and plans long-term.

One needs to decipher her grand design.

The response should be appropriate, keeping the big picture in mind, and not a knee-jerk reaction.

 

2.

INDIA DEPLOYS PLATOON OF WOMEN PEACEKEEPERS IN UN MISSION IN ABYEI

 

This will be so far, India’s largest single unit of women Peacekeepers in a UN Mission. The Indian contingent, comprising two officers and 25 other ranks, will form part of an engagement platoon and specialise in community outreach and will be performing extensive security-related tasks as well

 

Comments:

In 2007, India became the first country to deploy an all-women contingent to a UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia.

India is one of the largest troop-contributing countries to UN peacekeeping.

As of October 31, 2022, India is the second largest contributor to UN peacekeeping missions with 5887 troops and personnel deployed across 12 missions, after Bangladesh (7,017).

 

3.

AIRCRAFT CARRIERS (USA Vis-à-vis China)

 

USA. There are only 47 active aircraft carriers in the world and the US Navy has 11 of them, with displacement tonnage nearly as many as all other countries combined. The US Navy’s large nuclear-powered fleet carriers carry around 80 fighters each and are the largest carriers in the world. The total combined deck space is more than double of all other nations combined.

 

China. As of 2022, the PLAN has two combat-ready aircraft carriers, the Liaoning and Shandong, with the third, Fujian, China’s third and most advanced aircraft carrier, being fitted out. The Fujian is equipped with advanced electromagnetic catapults, similar to those on the US supercarrier USS Gerald R Ford, while China’s first two carriers featured ski-jump designs. China’s only ship-borne fighter jet, the twin-engine single-seat J-15 Flying Shark, is the world’s heaviest carrier-borne fighter.

 

Comments:

Numerically, the Chinese navy has overtaken the US navy.

China is building its expeditionary capability.

On achieving expeditionary capability, China will redefine its theatres.

 

4.

US TO SEND UKRAINE NEARLY $3 BILLION IN MILITARY AID

(Including dozens of Bradley vehicles)

 

A new U.S. weapons package for Ukraine will include about 50 Bradley Fighting Vehicles.

The armoured vehicle manufactured by BAE Systems has a powerful gun. The vehicle has been used by the U.S. Army to carry troops around battlefields since the mid-1980s.

 

Comments:

The United States has sent about $21.3 billion in assistance to Ukraine.

The US Army is to retire its Bradley fleet and is working with industry to build a replacement as it seeks to modernize.

The USA is dumping military equipment, it doesn’t need anymore.

USA continues to add fuel to the fire.

 

5.

SANCTIONS ARE NOT MISSILES

 

The misapprehension of what sanctions against Russia would accomplish can be explained in part by unrealistic expectations of what economic measures can do. Simply put, they are not the equivalent of a missile strike.

 

Comments:

Sanctions do not deter aggression.

The effect of sanctions take longer to work their way through the economy.

In the long run, sanctions can weaken the economy and lower GDP.

 

 

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309: INTEGRATED DETERRENCE

Pic Courtesy: internet

 

Introduction

 

Deterring an adversary from taking a particular course of action is not just a matter of stationing forces on the front line or maintaining nuclear weapons. Rather, deterrence is a form of high-stakes political communication. Deterrence is therefore psychological as much as anything else. It requires clearly signaling political will and intent to act decisively if an adversary crosses a red line.

 

Warfare is no longer restricted to Military operations. It involves all the tools of statecraft, i.e. diplomacy, information, military, and economics. Therefore it entails a whole of government approach to deal with it. An effective deterrence strategy utilizes all aspects of national power, not just the military.

 

Definition

 

Integrated deterrence would include the ability to exercise (as well as withstand) diplomatic reprimands, trade policies, and economic sanctions besides military options.

 

This phrase is the foundation of the recently published National Defence Strategy of the USA, which combines diplomacy, alliances, and new technology with conventional hard power to the deterrence capability.

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