SP's Land Forces - Issue 6 - 2025
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Top News
- All about HAMMER Smart Precision Guided Weapon in India — “BEL-Safran Collaboration”
- US to sell $93 million precision artillery, Javelin and Excalibur projectiles to India
- US to sell $93 million precision artillery, Javelin and Excalibur projectiles to India
- India, Germany deepen defence ties as High Defence Committee charts ambitious plan
- True strategic autonomy will come only when our code is as indigenous as our hardware: Rajnath Singh
- India-Israel Joint Working Group Meeting on defence cooperation to boost technology sharing and co-development
- G20 Summit: A Sign of Global Fracture
Issue Features
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EXCLUSIVECHIEF OF THE ARMY STAFF
Forging a Future-Ready Force: Inside the Indian Army’s Decade of Transformation
In an interview with Jayant Baranwal, Editor-in-Chief, SP’s Land Forces, Chief of the Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi outlines how jointness, technology infusion, indigenisation and lessons from modern warfare are reshaping the Indian Army for multidomain conflicts of the future.
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Boeing AH-64E Apache: Best-in-Class Attack Weapon for the Indian Army
By Manish Kumar JhaThe induction of the Boeing AH-64E Apache into the Army’s 451 Army Aviation Squadron in Jodhpur marks a major enhancement in India’s offensive air combat capability.
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NEIGHBOURHOOD / INDIA-BANGLADESH
Fortifying Chicken’s Neck
By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)India has fortified its eastern border by establishing three new military garrisons along the Indo-Bangladesh frontier to secure the strategic Siliguri Corridor, aimed at enhancing surveillance and rapid response capabilities
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CONFERENCE / REPORT
Charting a Vision for a Sashakt, Surakshit and Viksit Bharat
By SP’s CorrespondentIndian Army in collaboration with the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS) organised the two-day Chanakya Defence Dialogue that unfolded under the overarching theme ‘Reform to Transform – Sashakt, Surakshit aur Viksit Bharat’ at the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi
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DEFENCE INFRASTRUCTURE / MODERNISATION
Defence Minister Dedicates 125 Border Infrastructure Projects: The Most in One Go from Ladakh
By SP’s Correspondent28 Roads, 93 Bridges and 4 Miscellaneous projects spread across 2 Union Territories & 7 States completed at a cost of ₹5,000 crore, the highest-value inaugurations in BRO’s history
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INDO-US / DEFENCE CONTRACTS
US to Sell $93 Million Precision Artillery, Javelin and Excalibur Projectiles to India
By Manish Kumar JhaThe defence package comprises 100 FGM-148 Javelin missiles, 25 lightweight command launch units, and 216 Excalibur precision artillery rounds. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency has officially notified the US Congress. The approval underscores the continuity of India–US military cooperation.
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Appointment
Lt General Vipul Shinghal, assumed the appointment of Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Information System & Training) on December 1, 2025 after relinquishing the appointment of Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (Doctrine, Organisation & Training) at HQ IDS.
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Editorial
By Jayant Baranwal, Publisher & Editor-in-ChiefOn the occasion of ‘The Army Day’, in an exclusive interview with SP’s Land Forces, the Chief of the Army Staff said the Indian Army’s modernisation drive is firmly aligned with the changing character of warfare, which he noted is increasingly multi-domain, technology intensive and fast paced.
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