LR-SAM operationalised: Indian Navy successfully tests long-delayed air defence missile

By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 30th Dec 15



In a giant capability boost for the Indian
Navy, a naval warship today test-fired a new missile that can shoot down
incoming aerial threats --- such as aircraft and missiles --- whilst they are
still 70 kilometres away.



A defence ministry press release today
stated: �Adding a quantum jump in its air defence capability, INS Kolkata,

Defence equipment parameters should be realistic

By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 11th Dec 15



It has been reported that the secretary to
the Department of Defence Production complained, in a lecture earlier this week
at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, that the military frames such
ambitious specifications for equipment being procured that Indian companies get
left out of the procurement -- because they simply cannot

Ministry of defence targets 70% indigenisation by 2027

By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 11th Dec 15



Speaking in New Delhi on Monday, the
defence ministry�s secretary in charge of defence production, AK Gupta, announced
an ambitious target to �achieve a level of 70 per cent [defence] indigenisation
by 2027.



Analysts regard this as unrealistic,
considering that Gupta himself estimates that �the indigenous content in total
defence

Pragati Maidan available for Defexpo, says ITPO

Discontent grows at MoD plan
to shift Defexpo and Aero India to Goa



By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 29th Nov 15



As opposition mounts in Goa to Defence
Minister Manohar Parrikar�s plan to shift India�s two biggest defence
exhibitions --- Defexpo and Aero India --- to that state, it now emerges the controversial
decision to move to Goa is based on a flawed premise.



The defence

Parrikar faces Goa storm over land acquisition for Defexpo and Aero India

By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 23rd Nov 15



Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar�s home
state, Goa, is seething with resentment at their former chief minister�s
initiative to obtain for the defence ministry 150 acres of priceless land in Betul,
Goa.



Parrikar wants the land for shifting India�s
two major defence exhibitions to Goa --- Defexpo (land and naval systems), and
Aero India

Book Review: Crouching dragon, kneeling tiger

Title : Why
India is Not a Great Power (Yet)

Author : Bharat Karnad

Publisher : Oxford
University Press, New Delhi

Pages : 552

Price : Rs
875/-



Followers
of this country�s strategic and security policy know well that to read Bharat
Karnad is to imbibe the most hawkish Indian worldview and perspectives outside
the Sangh Parivar. Over the years,