CDS calls for building core space capabilities
Chief of defence body of workers General Anil Chauhan on Tuesday pressured the want for India to sharpen cognizance on constructing center offensive and shielding area skills, at the same time as drawing interest toward the militarisation of area, the improvement of guns with the aid of using one-of-a-kind nations, and the opportunity of strugglefare withinside the vital area.
“Space is getting used to beautify fight skills in different domains – land, sea, air or even cyber…The navy packages of area is the dominant discourse from which we can’t continue to be divorced,” Chauhan stated on the Indian DefSpace Symposium 2023 together organised with the aid of using Indian Space Association (ISpA) and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
He stated the invasion of the distance area with the aid of using industrial organisations as visible in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and the acute race toward the militarization of area had ended in enlargement of battlespace, with the character conflict being at the cusp of a primary transformation.
“The purpose for everyone must be growing dual-use structures with unique cognizance on incorporating modern-day era and we ought to make bigger our NavIC constellation, offer agile area-primarily based totally ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance), and make certain steady satellite tv for pc-assisted communications,” he stated.
NavIC, or Navigation with Indian Constellation, refers to a nearby navigation satellite tv for pc machine set up with the aid of using the Indian Space Research Organisation.
Chauhan`s feedback got here days after Indian Air Force leader Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari known as for constructing offensive and shielding area skills to guard belongings, at the same time as stressing that the race to weaponize area had already started, and the day turned into now no longer a long way while the subsequent strugglefare might be fought throughout land, sea, air, cyber and area. The IAF leader stated India had to capitalise on its preliminary successes in area and put together itself for the future.
The CDS spoke approximately the want to discover the sphere of miniaturization of satellites and reusable release structures to mitigate cost, demanding situations and boost up the tempo of augmenting India`s area-primarily based totally skills. “The populating of area area and the emergence of dynamic risk surroundings to our area belongings additionally needs that we beautify our area situational cognizance capability. There`s additionally a demand to guard our belongings with counter area skills. We ought to construct resilience and redundancy in a area-primarily based totally infrastructure.”
He spoke approximately the want to construct offensive and shielding area skills withinside the context of strides made with the aid of using Russia and China withinside the sector.
DRDO leader Samir V Kamat stated the company has sharpened its cognizance on the distance area, which includes area-primarily based totally surveillance, situational cognizance and protective area-primarily based totally belongings.
“Space is the subsequent frontier that calls for our interest. We have mastered simple area technologies, however the variety of satellites ought to move up drastically as we’re a long way at the back of China in this front,” Air Marshal Anil Chopra (retd), director general, Centre for Air Power Studies, in advance stated.
