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Garud upgrade: the IAF is looking to acquire sub machine carbines and light bulletproof vehicles for its commandos / Chandra, Atul

Chandra, Atul	Article
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The Indian Air Force (IAF) is seeking to upgrade the capabilities of its Garud commandos by procuring 160-200 light bullet proof vehicles and 1500-1900 sub-machine carbines. The new acquisitions will increase the capability of the IAF’s elite force and also attract substantial interest from foreign and Indian companies

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ID: 136458

Military innovation's dialectic: gun trucks and rapid acquisition / Kollars, Nina

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In times of war, the routes to innovation are often brutally radical instead of starry-eyed and fantastical. Still, compared with all the hype and hoopla about revolutionary technologies, little scholarly ink has been spilled over these “low-end” military innovations. “Field mods,” as they are often called, are not the sexy computerized drones and robotic sensations we associate with military innovation. This article recovers the process by which one such military innovation was created and argues that the seemingly bottom-up process of Gun Truck development was in fact a dialectical outcome that emerged from two different suborganization types: a learning organization and a bureaucratic stasis model. The findings from the case carry implications for innovation theory, our understanding of the nature of military organizations in war, and the challenge of technological change in wartime.

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ID: 136917

Remote-controlled land and sea vehicles: past, present, and future / Savchenko, Ye, O

Savchenko, Ye, O	Article
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The author looks at key trends in the development of automatic (remore-controlled) land and seagoing vehicles, and outlines their prospects and current and future uses.

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ID: 135670

Tomorrow’s world: the next generation of military UGVs / Williams, Huw

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The utility of UGVs across a number of mission sets is now without doubt. Recent operations have served as harsh proving grounds for a range of systems and highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of military robotics. Huw Williams examines a number of programmes under development and the capabilities they will bring

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