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SP's Land Forces - Issue 1 - 2022

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Issue Features

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    EXCLUSIVE
    CHIEF OF THE ARMY STAFF
    “Strengthening our Military Capabilities and Developing Cyber, Space and Strategic Communications is an Undeniable Requirement”

    —General M.M. Naravane, Chief of the Army Staff, in an interview with Jayant Baranwal, Editor-in-Chief, SP’s Land Forces, talks about how the Indian Army...

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    Complete Unmanned Solutions from Milkor
    By Staff Correspondent

    The Milkor Group has various offerings under its umbrella, one of the subsidiaries whose mandate revolves around the development and production of unmanned programmes for the Group, is growing substantially given the demand in the domain.

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    DEFENCE EXPORTS
    BrahMos Exports Get Going
    By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Negotiations for BrahMos between India and Philippines had been going on for the last few years but the obvious roadblock was Manila’s budgetary constraints

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    DEFENCE BUDGET
    The Defence Budget — Projection & Reality
    By Lt General J.K. Sharma (Retd)

    The Ministry of Defence (MoD) expenditure now comprises 2.02 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)-down from 2.22 per cent in FY2020 – and 13.3 per cent of central government expenditure, down from 16.7 per cent

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    UNMANNED SYSTEMS
    UGVs for Army
    By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Indian Army Design Bureau (ADB) had sought tailor-made technology for the Army for inducting tactical UGVs for close quarters surveillance and combat

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    MODERNISATION
    The Future Ready Indian Army
    By Lt General Pradeep Bali (Retd)

    Compared to Indian Army, it is assumed that the Chinese armed forces are better equipped and in the non-contact domain the PLA may be at an advantage.

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    Editorial
    By Jayant Baranwal, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

    The lead article is an extensive interaction with General M.M. Naravane, Chief of the Army Staff in which he covers a very wide spectrum of issues from strategical, operational & tactical environment facing the Army to its forces restructure, modernisation, technology absorption & adaption.