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SP's Land Forces - Issue 4 - 2018

Issue Features

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  EXCLUSIVE

  INTERVIEW
  ‘Artillery Rationalisation Plan was first perceived in the year 2000 wherein, medium guns with 155mm calibre were made the standard gun system’
  

  Lt General Naresh Chand (Retd), Senior Technical Editor, SP’s Land Forces in an exclusive interview with Lt General P.K. Srivastava, Director General of Artillery, who spoke comprehensively on artillery’s modernisation programme and challenges thereof

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  SPECIAL FEATURE
  Linking Force Sizing Decisions to Future Capability Outcomes
  

  The recent initiative by the Army Chief to right size and restructure the Indian Army is an exigent and laudable initiative, writes Lt General A.B. Shivane (Retd)

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  ARTILLERY
  More Muscle
  By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

  The Army is currently in the process of inducting 145 x M777 Ultra Lightweight Howitzers from BAE Systems at a cost of about $750 million. K9 Vajra-T 155 mm/52 calibre tracked self-propelled gun system is also under induction.

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  TECHNOLOGY
  Role of Technology in Law Enforcement
  By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

  Remarkable new digital technologies are transforming the ways police protect and serve, allowing agencies to prevent crimes more effectively and solve crimes faster.

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  ARTILLERY
  Thundering Artillery: Strengthening India’s Defence Capabilities
  

  Artillery is inarguably the most lethal form of land-based armament currently employed.

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  HADR
  Operation Madad – Indian Army’s ‘Madad’ to Kerala
  By Rohit Srivastava

  True to its tradition of service before self, Indian Army during the Kerala floods, selflessly provided the much needed relief

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  NIGHT VISION
  Image Intensifiers — the Key to Night Vision
  By Lt General Naresh Chand (Retd)

  Image intensification is the basis of night vision thus an image intensifier is a device for increasing the intensity of existing light in the environment for an optical system to enable to operate in low-light conditions

• EXERCISES
  Indian Army on an Exercise Spree
  By Rohit Srivastava

  Contributing to the Indian diplomatic and strategic outreach, Indian Army, in last one month, has been involved in various bilateral and multi-lateral exercises

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  INDO-US RELATIONS
  Indo-US 2+2 Dialogue
  By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

  Discussions were wide ranging covering the geopolitical and geostrategic developments including in the Korean Peninsula and the Af-Pak region.

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  NEWS IN BRIEF
  Unified Commanders’ Conference - 2018
  

  The two day Unified Commanders’ Conference for the year 2018 commenced on Jul 30, 2018 at New Delhi.

• NEWS IN BRIEF
  Sucessful Flight Test of Prahar
  

  Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully flight tested the indigenously developed surface-to-surface tactical missile ‘Prahar’, from Launch Complex-III, ITR, Balasore.

• NEWS IN BRIEF
  Second flight test of MPATGM sucessful
  

  Indigenously developed Man Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MPATGM), was successfully flight tested for the second time from the Ahmednagar range on September 16, 2018.

• NEWS IN BRIEF
  Cyient - BlueBird JV wins its first order for SpyLite mini UAS
  

  Cyient Solutions & Systems Pvt. Ltd. (CSS), a joint venture between Cyient Ltd. and BlueBird Aero Systems, Israel, today announced that it has received its first supply order from a unit of the Indian Army...

• NEWS IN BRIEF
  Ashok Leyland wins a tender for Defence Tracked Combat Vehicle
  

  Ashok Leyland announced a tender win in the Tracked Vehicle space. This tender is for developmental work and marks Ashok Leyland’s foray into tracked vehicle business.

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  NEWS IN BRIEF
  HAL sucessfully demonstrates 10Kg helicopter UAV
  

  The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited successfully demonstrated flight of a 10Kg Rotary Wing (Helicopter) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (RUAV).

• NEWS IN BRIEF
  Sucessful Flight Test of ATGM ‘HELINA’
  

  Indigenously developed Helicopter launched Anti-Tank Guided Missile ‘HELINA’ has been successfully flight tested from Army Helicopter in the ranges of Pokhran.

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  NEWS IN BRIEF
  Ballistic Missile Interceptor AAD sucessfully flight tested
  

  DRDO conducted the successful test of the Ballistic Missile Interceptor Advanced Area Defence (AAD) from Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha.

• NEWS IN BRIEF
  US move India into Elite Strategic Allies list
  

  Giving boost to bilateral relations, US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross United States, on July 30, announced inclusion of India to the Strategic Trade Authorization (STA) Tier 1, one of the most coveted lists of trading partners.

• NEWS IN BRIEF
  Appointments
  

  Lt General Abhay Krishna, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM, VSM took over as the Army Commander, Central Command; Lt General Manoj Mukund Naravane, AVSM, SM, VSM took over as the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command.

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

  The lead article in this issue is an interview with the Director General of Artillery, Lt General P.K. Srivastava on the occasion of the 191 Gunners’ Day on September 28, 2018.