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The change of Guard from Air Marshal Anil Chopra to AVM Anil Golani as he takes over as the Director General of CAPS….
The change of Guard from Air Marshal Anil Chopra to AVM Anil Golani as he takes over as the Director General of CAPS….

The change of Guard from Air Marshal Anil Chopra @Chopsyturvey to AVM Anil Golani @AnilGolani as he takes over as the Director General of CAPS. All the best for this new Endeavour and Good wishes.

IAF Modernisation Requires Intense Private Industry Participation, says DG, CAPS
IAF Modernisation Requires Intense Private Industry Participation, says DG, CAPS

Fire side chat between Editor-in-Chief Bharat Shakti Nitin A. Gokhale and AVM Anil Golani. India Air Force’s depleting squadron strength continues to cause concern. It’s an issue that the #IAF has flagged repeatedly in the past, without a time-bound solution in place. With the slippages in #LCA Tejas production, the chasm between the desired capability…

Vignettes of the Indian Air Force– 2024
Vignettes of the Indian Air Force– 2024

Author: Air Vice Marshal Anil Golani (Retd), Director General, Centre for Air Power Studies Keywords: International Exercises, HADR, First Responder, Combat Evacuation As one year fades into memory, there is excitement and hope for a brighter and more prosperous future  ahead. At the same time, one must also look at the milestones in the year gone…

Airbus-TASL venture to give boost to aviation ecosystem
Airbus-TASL venture to give boost to aviation ecosystem

Airbus-TASL is the first private military aircraft manufacturing facility in India. Of the nearly 14,000 detailed parts used to make one aircraft, 13,000 would be fully manufactured in India. First published on The Tribune. 05:55 AM Oct 29, 2024 IST THE Ministry of Defence (MoD) signed a Rs 21,935-crore contract with Airbus Defence and Space…

Air Domain Awareness and Regional Security
Air Domain Awareness and Regional Security

First published on Chanakya Forum, Mon 16 Sep 2024. The Indian Air Force, on the sidelines of ‘Tarang Shakti 2024,’ the largest multilateral exercise carried out in the country, also conducted a symposium on air domain awareness. The theme of the seminar was “Collaborative Approach to Facilitate Air Domain Awareness Towards Enhancing Regional Security.” With…

IAF’s heft shows in West’s keenness on joint exercises
IAF’s heft shows in West’s keenness on joint exercises

First published by Hindustantimes.com on Sep 03, 2024 08:48 PM IST Multilateral exercises such as Tarang Shakti serve as a beacon of hope and resolve for participating friendly foreign forces and send a strong strategic signal of deterrence to inimical forces and hegemons that do not wish to abide by a rules-based world order. Profile…

India Needs To Be Agile On Self-Reliance In Aerospace
India Needs To Be Agile On Self-Reliance In Aerospace

The unveiling of J-36, a sixth-generation fighter aircraft by China late last year, probably came as a Sputnik moment in its contest for air dominance with the US. The race to dominate Artificial Intelligence (AI) — think Deep Seek vs OpenAI — included, the intensification of the frontier-tech contest between the two becomes clear. The…

RADIOACTIVE TSUNAMIS: BIRTH OF THE POSEIDON YOU HAVEN’T MET
RADIOACTIVE TSUNAMIS: BIRTH OF THE POSEIDON YOU HAVEN’T MET

Imagine standing on a peaceful seashore, only to realize that an impending tsunami is on the horizon. But this is no ordinary tsunami, this one is radioactive. It’s a nightmare scenario, but one that strategic experts believe could become reality with Russia’s ongoing nuclear innovation: The Poseidon torpedo. According to media reports, in January 2023,…