Aerospace is the dominant technology and if India aspires to have regional clout, it needs to become a major aerospace power.
Aero India is back again with its 11th edition to showcase the might of airpower to the people who gather across the country and elsewhere. Airpower or aerospace power is an amalgam of a country’s aeronautics industry, R&D capabilities, military and civil aircraft, airports and pilots.
Western industrial nations possess consistent advantage in airpower since the inception of the mechanised flight in 1903. Germany, Britain, US, former Soviet Union, Japan, France and Italy over the last century have employed airpower decisively to their advantage. However, India never used the Indian Air Force (IAF) as an instrument of national power in the 1962 conflict against China because of the lack of air-mindedness of its political and military leadership.
In the post-Second World War period, which coincided with the Cold War phase in international politics, several developing nations have used aircraft that were developed by one or more of these industrial nations to become the mainstay of their air power in their limited wars or military actions within their regions.
Air shows are trade promotion events to showcase military fighter and transport aircraft, avionics and allied systems to potential client nations. It is a public event where pilots display their flying skills and the capabilities of their aircraft to spectators, usually through aerobatic displays which infuse a sense of nationalism and ‘air-mindedness’ among people. For the layman, these displays are simply exciting displays of manoeuvres and formation flying.
14/02/17 Air Marshal Matheswaran (rtd) and Bidanda Chengappa/Deccan Herald
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Aero India is back again with its 11th edition to showcase the might of airpower to the people who gather across the country and elsewhere. Airpower or aerospace power is an amalgam of a country’s aeronautics industry, R&D capabilities, military and civil aircraft, airports and pilots.
Western industrial nations possess consistent advantage in airpower since the inception of the mechanised flight in 1903. Germany, Britain, US, former Soviet Union, Japan, France and Italy over the last century have employed airpower decisively to their advantage. However, India never used the Indian Air Force (IAF) as an instrument of national power in the 1962 conflict against China because of the lack of air-mindedness of its political and military leadership.
In the post-Second World War period, which coincided with the Cold War phase in international politics, several developing nations have used aircraft that were developed by one or more of these industrial nations to become the mainstay of their air power in their limited wars or military actions within their regions.
Air shows are trade promotion events to showcase military fighter and transport aircraft, avionics and allied systems to potential client nations. It is a public event where pilots display their flying skills and the capabilities of their aircraft to spectators, usually through aerobatic displays which infuse a sense of nationalism and ‘air-mindedness’ among people. For the layman, these displays are simply exciting displays of manoeuvres and formation flying.
14/02/17 Air Marshal Matheswaran (rtd) and Bidanda Chengappa/Deccan Herald
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