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By Samantha Tanner, IQPC
As defence cuts come to the forefront of capabilities among armed forces across the world, emerging economies are spending more in order to completely modernise equipment available for their troops. India is one such country experiencing a huge rise in defence budgets in order to keep up with their neighbours China and to completely revolutionise their army technologically.
The Indian army is planning to be completely network enabled in order to grow and develop their forces over the next decade. It is currently estimated that India will spend big with some estimates putting the figure at $120 billion over the next five years, most of which will transform the troops into modern, high tech soldiers with network centric warfare technologies.
Becoming a more modern and high tech army is a key aspect in India's massive spending strategy. This already includes the Futuristic Infantry Solider as a System (F-INSAS) which is a system that will allow soldiers to have the capability to fight in network centric warfare and electronic warfare environments. Added to this, new mini laptops and GPS systems are currently being sought in order to fully digitise the troops on the ground.
In addition to this, the IAF last year introduced Air Force Net (AFNET) was billed as the backbone of its network centric warfare capability. The system is a fibre optic-based network on which the Integrated Air Command and Control System (IACCS) is used. When the system was launched it linked all systems within its ground, air and space assets and gave complete situational awareness of the area it wanted to secure and dominate.
This shared awareness on a faster and more inter-operable system made for more synergy between command and control and the ability to make complex decisions away from the front line and gives the troops greater warfighting advantage.
Speaking at Defence IQ's Future Artillery event in March, Major General Vikas Joshi, Additional Director of General Artillery in the Indian Army explained that India's defence strategy was to make their soldiers fast, light and accurate. He explained that India was going to become an army focused on network centric warfare solutions in order to effectively fight in various terrain across the country.
He also added that information superiority, surveillance and target acquisition were all key aspects in making the Indian Army modern and high tech for their network centric capabilities. In essence moving away from platform centric to network centric and create complete battlefield transparency.
While there are those who believe that India is gearing up towards potential future conflicts with their South Asian neighbours, the complete modernisation of their army and the high tech systems they will be using within the next decade shows how important Network Centric Warfare capabilities have become in winning conflicts on information alone.
It's not just India that are spending on these modernisation trends. Figures from Frost & Sullivan, the market research analysts, shows that defence communication technologies such as tactical radios and military satellite and network-centric communications are the key technologies driving funding in the defence market. Additionally, the next generation of technological development for military communications will be greatly influenced by the goal of a fully interoperable solution.
Future Artillery India will take place in New Delhi in June and will focus on India's current artillery capabilities. Speakers include the Indian Army, India's MoD, US Army, French Army and the Israeli Army.
For more information on this event or to view booking forms, please visit IQPC Future Artillery India.
As defence cuts come to the forefront of capabilities among armed forces across the world, emerging economies are spending more in order to completely modernise equipment available for their troops. India is one such country experiencing a huge rise in defence budgets in order to keep up with their neighbours China and to completely revolutionise their army technologically.
The Indian army is planning to be completely network enabled in order to grow and develop their forces over the next decade. It is currently estimated that India will spend big with some estimates putting the figure at $120 billion over the next five years, most of which will transform the troops into modern, high tech soldiers with network centric warfare technologies.
Becoming a more modern and high tech army is a key aspect in India's massive spending strategy. This already includes the Futuristic Infantry Solider as a System (F-INSAS) which is a system that will allow soldiers to have the capability to fight in network centric warfare and electronic warfare environments. Added to this, new mini laptops and GPS systems are currently being sought in order to fully digitise the troops on the ground.
In addition to this, the IAF last year introduced Air Force Net (AFNET) was billed as the backbone of its network centric warfare capability. The system is a fibre optic-based network on which the Integrated Air Command and Control System (IACCS) is used. When the system was launched it linked all systems within its ground, air and space assets and gave complete situational awareness of the area it wanted to secure and dominate.
This shared awareness on a faster and more inter-operable system made for more synergy between command and control and the ability to make complex decisions away from the front line and gives the troops greater warfighting advantage.
Speaking at Defence IQ's Future Artillery event in March, Major General Vikas Joshi, Additional Director of General Artillery in the Indian Army explained that India's defence strategy was to make their soldiers fast, light and accurate. He explained that India was going to become an army focused on network centric warfare solutions in order to effectively fight in various terrain across the country.
He also added that information superiority, surveillance and target acquisition were all key aspects in making the Indian Army modern and high tech for their network centric capabilities. In essence moving away from platform centric to network centric and create complete battlefield transparency.
While there are those who believe that India is gearing up towards potential future conflicts with their South Asian neighbours, the complete modernisation of their army and the high tech systems they will be using within the next decade shows how important Network Centric Warfare capabilities have become in winning conflicts on information alone.
It's not just India that are spending on these modernisation trends. Figures from Frost & Sullivan, the market research analysts, shows that defence communication technologies such as tactical radios and military satellite and network-centric communications are the key technologies driving funding in the defence market. Additionally, the next generation of technological development for military communications will be greatly influenced by the goal of a fully interoperable solution.
Future Artillery India will take place in New Delhi in June and will focus on India's current artillery capabilities. Speakers include the Indian Army, India's MoD, US Army, French Army and the Israeli Army.
For more information on this event or to view booking forms, please visit IQPC Future Artillery India.
