SP's Land Forces - Issue 1 - 2022

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.