Rakesh Krishnan Simha

–The writer is a globally cited defence analyst based in New Zealand. The views expressed are of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the views of Raksha Anirveda

MiG-21 Crash: Why the Bison Belongs In the Boneyard – Not In the Air?

Rakesh Krishnan Simha -
    On May 22, a MiG-21 Bison jet flown by Squadron Leader Abhinav Choudhary was on a routine training sortie and was returning to Suratgarh when it crashed in a field near Moga, Punjab. In...

Gunboat Diplomacy: Biden-Kamala Behind the US Navy Intrusion off Lakshadweep

Rakesh Krishnan Simha -
On April 7, the US Navy guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones entered India's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) without requesting India’s prior consent and conducted manoeuvres approximately 130 nautical miles (240 km) west...

Future Firepower: IAF Fleet Should Reflect India’s New Punitive Strikes Policy

Rakesh Krishnan Simha -
  The Indian Air Force has a total strength of 1,276 aircraft, including 434 combat/air superiority jets and 102 ground attack planes. Although the IAF remains the fourth largest air force in the world, its...

Reforms that will Help India Speed up Indigenisation of Defence Manufacturing and Boost Atmanirbhar Bharat

Rakesh Krishnan Simha -
  Government's 'Make in India' initiative, as far as the aerospace and defence sectors are concerned, has certainly gathered momentum over the last year. The opening up of the defence sector to privatisation through the...

Terminator Troops: How Autonomous Robots Can Help India Win Wars and Defeat Terrorists

Rakesh Krishnan Simha -
  T he body count of counter insurgency operations in India makes disturbing reading. In April 2010, 76 CRPF policemen were killed in an ambush by Maoist terrorists in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh. In February 2019, 40 Indian...

BRAHMOS: New Versions Are Faster, Stealthier, Deadlier

Rakesh Krishnan Simha -
  BRAHMOS has been described as the “Brahmastra for the Indian armed forces”. The supersonic cruise missile is not quite in the same league as the mighty weapon of Lord Brahma, but it is certainly...

Mission BrahMos: How India Got the World’s Most Powerful Cruise Missile

Rakesh Krishnan Simha -
  The history of arms development in India is littered with the debris of numerous stalled projects. The Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) project was 30 years late; the jet combat trainer has been shot down...

Revisiting Balakot: How the IAF Exposed Pakistan’s Window of Vulnerability

Rakesh Krishnan Simha -
  The daring raid by the Indian Air Force on February 26, 2019 in Balakot, deep inside Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, didn’t just destroy the training camps of the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist group. More significantly, the strike...

Why the Indian Air Force Should Not Rush into Stealth

Rakesh Krishnan Simha -
If there’s one area in which China has acquired a significant lead over India it is in the development of stealth fighters. While India’s Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) venture with Russia crash landed...

Air-To-Air Missiles: India’s Window of Vulnerability

Rakesh Krishnan Simha -
  On the afternoon of December 12, 1971, at the peak of the India-Pakistan War, two Lockheed F-104 Starfighters of the Pakistan Air Force crossed the Gujarat border on their way to attack the forward...

War of the Titans: Despite the Naysayers, It’s Advantage India Versus China

Rakesh Krishnan Simha -
  When the world’s largest democracy is pitted against the world’s largest autocracy, the clash will always be unpredictable. This is because each side has vastly divergent strategic thinking and different ways of dealing with...

Hypersonic Weapons: Why India Must Close the Technology Gap

Rakesh Krishnan Simha -
  On September 7, India successfully flight tested a hypersonic technology demonstrator vehicle (HSTDV), becoming the fourth country after the US, Russia and China to do so. According to the Defence Research and Development Organisation...

Pincer Movement: How the Quad Can Build a Great Wall against China

Rakesh Krishnan Simha -
Years from now when communist China implodes like the former Soviet Union, analysts will look at the Galwan Valley clash as the tipping point that set in motion the chain of events that triggered...
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