Raksha Anirveda
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Atmanirbharta: A Key Requirement of Future Electronic-Centric Warfare In future warfare, enhanced situational awareness will be the key differentiator. With the negative side of using unsecured commercial technology in a live war (Russia-Ukraine War) exposed, it’s imperative from national security perspective to have indigenously developed technology to ensure decisive edge on the adversaries…. By Sai Pattabiram
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limpses of Future Electronic Centric Warfare : The very mention of Future Warfare starts with previously unheard of words like UAV’s, UGV’s, USV’s, Anti Drone Systems Situational awareness, Loitering Munitions, Directed Energy Weapons (DEW’s), RF Bandwidth Optimization and a host of other technologies. Glimpses of the devastative power of Loitering Munitions and the devastation caused by them coupled with the lack of an effective Anti-drone solution in the Azerbaijani Armenian War of 2020 for Nagrno Karabakh was the first use case of these Asymmetric technology products
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and to say the results were beyond imagination itself would be an understatement. It really shook the very fundamentals of warfare that the world was used to because the range and the effectiveness of Azeri loitering munitions amounted to a estimated loss
in excess of $ 4000 Billion on the Armenian side hugely disproportional to the value to resources deployed by Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani army deployed cutting-edge weapon systems from its arsenal into the battlefield, including advanced Loitering munitions like the Turkish Bayraktar, Israeli Harop, Orbiter, Skystriker apart from Israeli MALE, HALE UAV’s, gave the Azerbaijanis a situational awareness and strike capability including use of Anti-Tank Missiles & Air defence systems that no army ever got in any active war zone. It is the situational awareness
