Chief of defence staff General Anil Chauhan on Tuesday harassed the necessity for India to sharpen deal with constructing core offensive and defensive house capabilities, whereas drawing consideration in direction of the militarisation of house, the event of weapons by completely different nations, and the opportunity of warfare within the important area.

“Space is being used to enhance combat capabilities in other domains – land, sea, air and even cyber…The military applications of space is the dominant discourse from which we cannot remain divorced,” Chauhan stated on the Indian DefSpace Symposium 2023 collectively organised by Indian Space Association (ISpA) and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

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He stated the invasion of the house area by business enterprises as seen in the course of the Russia-Ukraine battle, and the extraordinary race in direction of the militarization of house had resulted in growth of battlespace, with the character warfare being on the cusp of a serious transformation.

“The aim for all of us should be developing dual-use platforms with special focus on incorporating cutting-edge technology and we must expand our NavIC constellation, provide agile space-based ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance), and ensure secure satellite-assisted communications,” he stated.

NavIC, or Navigation with Indian Constellation, refers to a regional navigation satellite tv for pc system established by the Indian Space Research Organisation.

Chauhan’s feedback got here days after Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari known as for constructing offensive and defensive house capabilities to safeguard belongings, whereas stressing that the race to weaponize house had already began, and the day was not far when the subsequent warfare could be fought throughout land, sea, air, cyber and house. The IAF chief stated India wanted to capitalise on its preliminary successes in house and put together itself for the long run.

The CDS spoke about the necessity to discover the sphere of miniaturization of satellites and reusable launch platforms to mitigate value, challenges and speed up the tempo of augmenting India’s space-based capabilities. “The populating of space domain and the emergence of dynamic threat environment to our space assets also demands that we enhance our space situational awareness capability. There’s also a requirement to safeguard our assets with counter space capabilities. We must build resilience and redundancy in a space-based infrastructure.”

He spoke about the necessity to construct offensive and defensive house capabilities within the context of strides made by Russia and China within the sector.

DRDO chief Samir V Kamat stated the organisation has sharpened its deal with the house area, together with space-based surveillance, situational consciousness and defending space-based belongings.

“Space is the next frontier that requires our attention. We have mastered basic space technologies, but the number of satellites must go up significantly as we are far behind China on this front,” Air Marshal Anil Chopra (retd), director common, Centre for Air Power Studies, earlier stated.