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Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
(Former DG, Air Defence, Indian Army) (Higher Defence Analyst)

(Former DG, Air Defence, Indian Army) (Higher Defence Analyst)

Contributions 
Indigenisation: A New Awakening- Where are We Headed?
June 03, 2022 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Setting the Perspective The Recent Past It was not very long ago when the word ‘indigenisation’ of defence equipment used to draw passive and uninspiring thoughts in the mind. Handled by a solitary branch under the Corps of EM...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, Make in India, Atmanirbhar Bharat, Indigenisation of defence equipment, indigenisation policy, iDEX
Ukraine: How is the Air and Air Defence War Unfolding ?
April 21, 2022 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
A Sequel This work is the sequel to the author’s earlier work titled, “Why the Ukrainian skies are still contested” available at www.vifindia.org[1]. Building on the thread of the earlie...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, Russo-Ukrainian war, Air war in Ukraine, Russia’s air war
Why the Ukrainian Skies are still Contested- An Assessment
March 24, 2022 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
The posers that demand an answer:- This work attempts an answer to the following posers in the context of the on-going air war between Russia and Ukraine:- How the forces measured up on both sides? How come till date, a...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Defence, Article, Russo-Ukraine war, Russian air power, Ukraine air war, air battle in Ukrainian skies, Russian air campaign
Drone swarms - a grave threat. Where are we?
March 14, 2022 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Mass swarms of dozens or hundreds of drones guided by AI are increasingly being touted as the new lethal threats in the modern battlefield. The world got a taste of this emerging military technology in May 2021 during the 11-day conflict between Isr...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, artificial intelligence, AI, Drone swarms, Podcast, Drones Collaborative Behaviour in Denied Environment (CODE), FLOCK 93, Tactical High Power Operational Responder (THOR)
Cruise Missiles : where are we ? Where are our Potential Adversaries? What way ahead?
February 23, 2022 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
The Trigger Event The morning chill on the 21stof Jan 22 got broken with a ‘warm’ news from the DRDO announcing the successful test firing of the Brahmos supersonic cruise missile from its test range in Odisha. While many will see th...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, BrahMos, Babur, cruise missiles, Nirbhay, Chinese cruise missile threat, Pakistan cruise missile threat
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VIF Papers 
DPP 2016: An enabler, not a show-stopper
August 18, 2016 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
DPP or no DPP the onus of success or failure lies in the hands of those who operate the DPP. Like they say, the law is only as good as the enforcer of the law. DPP 2016 or DPP 2056, it will be only as good as the persons who operate it, who interpret...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Indian military, DPP 2016, Defence industry. DRDO, Defence Acquisition Council
Anti Satellite Weapons: A Likely Future Trajectory
May 30, 2016 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
The concept of ASAT weapons has evolved over time as a logical progression from the mother concept of Anti Ballistic Missiles (ABM) or its more recent coinage,the Ballistic Missile defence (BMD)-- a Missile-based defence against the adversary's threa...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Ballistic Missile, ASAT, Anti Satellite Weapons
Growing Muscle of PLAAF
March 11, 2016 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Steady Growth. Although some signs of a somewhat waning economy are now visible in China (economic growth rate sliding down from 10.5% in 2010 to 7.4% in 2014) she has experienced a steady growth cycle for the past two decades, catapulting the...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, PLA, Chinese Military, PLAAF, People’s Liberation Army, PLAN
VIF Briefs 
CAATSA and S-400: The American Dilemma - An Analysis
March 09, 2021 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
After flashing in fury about an year back and eventually loosing much of its sheen and venom thereafter, the threat of CAATSA is alive, dangling yet again like the proverbial ‘Sword of Damocles’ over the fate of India’s purchase of S-400 syste...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, S-400, Air Threat, US Sanctions, CAATSA, Air Defence Matrix
Power behind Arrogance: Assessment of China’s Air and Missile Arsenal
June 23, 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Going backwards from recent acts of Chinese belligerence and barbaric conduct in Galwan (sic) totally divorced from all ethos of soldiering, into events of the recent past, a pattern emerges. A pattern of Chinese aggressiveness, arrogance and more; u...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, South China Sea, Chinese Air Power, Chinese Missile Power, Air and missile threat from China, Line of Actual Control
Swarm Drones: Attacker’s Delight, Defender’s Nightmare
May 28, 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Ever since the emergence of the unmanned phenomenon, the warfare has never been the same. Starting from their very humble beginnings of giving the war-fighter the marginally incremental capability to ‘look around the corner and over the hill’ the...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Warfare, Swarm Drones, UAS, Growing Lethality, SWARM Task Sheet, SWARM
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