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In This Issue Page 4 Swarm Drones — New Frontier of Warfare A new way altogether of releasing force on the enemy, Swarm Drones will play a dominant role in the conflicts of the future, with more and more states and non-state actors using this technology Lt General Dushyant Singh (Retd) Page 5 Army Aviation Corps — Present Status and Modernisation
Future Army and Evolving Warfare Will human intelligence and creativity win the next war or the leader in AI will rule the world? Technological innovations in the future would surely change the nature of warfare. Future conflict will take place in a battlespace that is shaped by Artificial Intelligence and other new technologies. Photograph: Courtney Maxson, Army / defense.gov
With the motto Suveg and Sudridh (Swift and Sure), the youngest corps of the Indian Army is growing in tactical importance, in the battlefield, as a force multiplier Lt General Naresh Chand (Retd) Page 6 Army’s Eye in the Sky Pilotless Aircraft or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), better known as Drones are rapidly growing in popularity in various military operations due to their high convenience in reducing losses and enabling the execution of high profile and time-sensitive missions Lt General Naresh Chand (Retd) Page 7 The Looming Drone Threat Drones provide an opportunity to getting close to the target and bring an “unmanned” weapons platform from which force can be launched via remote control. Drones also provide maneuverability of the platform, in close vicinity to the target, allowing more precise targeting. In this age of technology, Drones were bound to happen and are here to stay. Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd) Page 8 Death Knell of Tanks: Fact or Fiction
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being viewed as the most disruptive technology of the current era that promises to change the face of warfare for years to come
Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)
With attention shifting to cutting-edge technologies like robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous drones, the logic behind maintaining large, legacy platforms has been brought into question Lt General R.K. Jagga (Retd) Plus News / Appointments
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hree events were prominently covered in media during 2020. First was the killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani on January 3 through precision targeting by a US drone near Baghdad International Airport while he was on his way to meet Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi in Baghdad. Second was the AzerbaijanArmenia conflict in Nagorno Karabakh in which swarm drones used by Azerbaijan
played a decisive role. Third was the assassination of Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on November 27 for which Iran accused Israel. Iran’s Tasnim news agency quoting a senior Iranian military official has stated that Mohsen’s assassination was carried out remotely with artificial intelligence and a machine gun equipped with a “satellite-controlled smart system”.
Changing Landscape Use of drones with artificial intelligence (AI) has been witnessed in recent years.
The Islamic State used drones in Iraq-Syria and was even trying to develop rocket assisted drones. Russian bases in Syria too were subjected to swarm drone attacks. In September 2019, Yemen-based Houthi rebels executed a coordinated massive swarm drone strike on two ARAMCO oil production facilities of Saudi Arabia defeating the Saudi air defence systems. Addressing students in Moscow during September 2017, President Vladimir Putin had famously said that whichever country becomes the leader in AI research “will become the ruler of the
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