INDIAN ARMED FORCES CHIEFS ON
OUR RELENTLESS AND FOCUSED PUBLISHING EFFORTS

SP's Land Forces - Issue 04 - 2014

Issue Features

• 

  LEAD STORY
  Pakistani Army Operations in North Waziristan
  By Lt General V.K. Kapoor (Retd)

  North Waziristan (NW) is inhabited by a very large number of terror groups of all hues and colours.

• 

  SOUTH ASIA
  Limiting a Subcontinental Nuclear War
  By Ali Ahmed

  India’s conventional advantage stands faced with a stalemate brought about by introduction of Hatf IX or Nasr (missile) by Pakistan.

• 

  SOUTH ASIA
  Getting Familiar
  

  The Embassy of China at New Delhi recently organised a visit of an Indian media delegation to China for interactions at Beijing with the 4th Army Aviation Regiment...

• 

  TECHNOLOGY
  Almost Invincible Israel’s Air Defence
  By R. Chandrakanth

  Iron Dome is the only dual mission counter rocket, artillery and mortar (C-RAM) and Very Short Range Air Defense (VSHORAD) system

• 

  OPERATIONS
  Airborne Operations
  By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

  The Para Training School (PTS), run by the Indian Air Force at Agra, conducts the parachuting and combat military free-fall training of the Army, the President’s Body Guards, cadets...

• 

  MODERNISATION
  Global Air Defence Scenario
  By R. Chandrakanth

  India’s air defence network has two principal components—the ‘Air Defence Ground Environment System’ (ADGES) and the ‘Base Air Defence Zones’ (BADZ)

• 

  MIDDLE EAST
  Recent Developments in Iraq
  By Ranjit Gupta

  The ISIS has captured large quantities of sophisticated weaponry from the Iraqi Army and security forces which had fled abandoning their weapons in the face of the ISIS onslaught...

• 

  FOCUS / INDIA
  Raising FDI in Defence - Not lucrative by itself
  By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

  The Defence Research and Development Organisation had identified some 15 critical technologies that it seeks to import through offsets, such technologies would require special approvals by the foreign vendor’s government

• 

  FOCUS / INDIA
  Lessons from Kargil War
  By General V.P. Malik (Retd)

  Operation Vijay was a blend of determined political, military and diplomatic actions, which enabled us to transform an adverse situation into an emphatic military and diplomatic victory

• 

  FOCUS / INDIA
  Article 370 and its Relevance Today
  By General V.P. Malik (Retd)

  Elections time in a democracy are sensitive. Controversial issues get raised, and challenged.

• 

  SP'S EXCLUSIVES
  Indian Army scouts 'Smart' artillery shells

  The Indian Army is looking to procure 155mm Trajectory Correctable Munitions (Course Correctable Fuze) for its 155mm artillery guns, and to include 39/45/52 calibre equipment.

• SP'S EXCLUSIVES
  New ammunition for MBT Arjun tested

  Trials of new 120mm penetration-cum-blast ordnance for the Arjun main battle tank have been successfully conducted at the DRDO's Proof and Experimental Establishment in Odisha.

• 

  SP'S EXCLUSIVES
  DRDO's new embankment blasting device successfully tested

  The DRDO has conducted user-assisted technical trials of the Bund Blasting Device Mk.II, the new improved version of the indigenous man-portable embankment blasting device, designed and developed by the Terminal...

• 

  SP'S EXCLUSIVES
  Nirbhay cruise missile test before Diwali

  In service and well-respected as a successful and potent indigenous weapon, the new and improved Pinaka Mk.II rocket, developed by the DRDO's Armament Research and Development Establishment...

• 

  SP'S EXCLUSIVES
  New defensive aids for MBT Arjun proven in trials

  An advanced laser warning countermeasure system and a mobile camouflage system have recently been tested and proven on the Arjun MBT Mk.II in the Mahajan Field Firing Range in Rajasthan.