00:00See this drone thing, it has been live for a very long time but after this of Sindhuur's
00:08success, suddenly it has caught attention.
00:11In my opinion, this UAV is drones and you can call it by any other name, loitering munitions
00:19that is the attraitable version and that is the one which is to be treated as maybe ammunition.
00:28It has added a new dimension in warfare or domain in warfare.
00:35All scientific organizations, they have to contribute to Indigenous military capability
00:41and they have achieved a lot.
00:42It was shown to us and they have to continue to help us.
00:48We really split this discussion even at this late hour.
00:56See this drone thing, it has been live for a very long time.
01:01But after this of Sindhuur's success, suddenly it has caught attention and a large number
01:08of debates are happening and we are going deeper and deeper into these aspects.
01:20The strategic significance of UAVs and along with it the counter UAVs has suddenly become
01:27known to each and every child in India.
01:32Add to this is the usage of these technologies in Middle East, Ukraine, Russia.
01:41But when it happened very close to us, that is how it has gathered this.
01:47And today a lot of good suggestions have come, we have to really improve.
01:53In my opinion, this UAV is drones and you can call it by any other name, loitering munitions,
02:01that is the attributable version and that is the one which is to be treated as maybe ammunition.
02:10It has added a new dimension in warfare or domain in warfare.
02:17So this unmanned is a new domain.
02:20All of us are trying to understand it and trying to do our best to achieve superiority in
02:27this domain also.
02:28That is the reason why we have gathered here that how to do indigenization of various drone
02:35components because what we have been seeing in last few years of drone usage and that
02:42a lot of components were coming from outside.
02:45So military and civil authorities have to give their requirement.
02:52That is what was told by DGPCNSI.
02:56Very valid point, we have to aggregate the demands.
03:00Industry has to do innovation and innovation and innovation and certainly your pain points
03:05which have been brought out, please submit and we will see what best we can do.
03:11All scientific organizations, they have to contribute to indigenous military capability and they have
03:17achieved a lot, it was shown to us and they have to continue to help us.
03:24And academy has to do financial research and maybe various kinds of parks and approach the
03:31whole problem in a very scientific manner.
03:37Certain issues are brought out like air space integration, adapting to evolving threats and
03:43certain lessons from recent conflict which we are learning.
03:49Interoperability and mission management was also talked about.
03:52So some very good points have emerged.
03:56Now what is the path forward?
04:00Basically a lot of points have come which we are going to compile.
04:03There are two things which I think are very very important.
04:06First one is demand aggregation and second is pipeline model of procurement.
04:11Not going through the batch procurement type of thing which we are doing.
04:17Because industry also has to get motivated to produce and should have long term visibility.
04:25Then a person will certainly invest and try to indigenize to achieve strategic independence.
04:34That is what we are looking at.
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