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SP's MAI Issue No. 21 | November 01-15, 2013 - Military Updates

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    MILITARY1 / VIEWPOINT
    Time to leapfrog technology
    By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

    What India needs to learn from China is optimising technology reconfiguration wherein available technology is integrated in multitude of combinations to attain selfreliance

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    MILITARY1 / FEATURE
    Net-centric warfare
    By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

    For transformation into an NCW capable force, we need a NCW doctrine as the start point. Concepts of individual services should flow...

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    MILITARY1 / FEATURE
    C4I2SR
    By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

    The ability to protect our information, systems, programmes, people and facilities in a risk management environment directly impacts...

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    MILITARY1 / FEATURE
    Filling the capability void
    By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

    The key to success will lie in effective command and control across the force.

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    MILITARY1 / FEATURE
    Communication for the BMS
    By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

    Government needs to examine allotment of a dedicated defence band from the spectrum to meet the bandwidth requirement of the Services...

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    Geographic information system
    By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

    While generally this data has been assumed to pertain to terrain features only, a true GIS ready map should logically cover the complete spectrum...

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    MILITARY1 / SHOW REPORT / AUSA 2013
    US budget cuts impact defence programmes
    By R. Chandrakanth

    The US military has a dominating presence in the world.

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    MILITARY1 / CURTAIN-RAISER
    MSME Defexpo curtain-raiser
    By Sucheta Das Mohapatra

    The National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) is organising the third MSME Defexpo at Bengaluru from December 12-14, 2013...

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    MILITARY1
    Raytheon Excalibur Ib completes qualification flight testing

    Raytheon Company fired 84 precision-guided Excalibur Ib all up rounds during qualification flight tests at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.

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    MBDA's Brimstone missile hits very fast targets

    In early October MBDA demonstrated significant progress on the Brimstone 2 development programme with a series of successful firings aimed at proving the performance of the latest guidance system upgrades...

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    IAF launches 3G WCDMA cellular network

    The Indian Air Force (IAF) has launched its 3G cellular network named Air Force Cellular (AFCEL), becoming first among the services to have commissioned its own captive 3G network.

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    IAI developing mine and IED detection system

    Israel Aerospace Industries’ (IAI) Ramta’s Division has completed the last phase of engineering testing and has begun building a technology demonstrator of a multisensor system called MIDS...