Air defence systems play a defining role amid the changing nature of warfare. This was borne out last month, when Iran launched a barrage of missiles and drones into Israeli airspace.
The Iranian move was to retaliate for Israel’s strikes on its mission in Damascus, which killed some of Iran’s top commanders.
Projectiles launched by Iran barely had any effect, thanks to Israel’s sophisticated air defence systems.
Iron Dome, Arrow 2 and Arrow 3, David’s Sling are some of the key components of Israel’s air defence.
In this episode of Simply Nitin, StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale gives a lowdown on India’s air defence apparatus and how things have looked up in the last 15-odd years.
Nitin A. Gokhale is a media entrepreneur, one of South Asia's leading strategic affairs analyst and author of over a dozen books so far on military history, insurgencies and wars.
Starting his career in journalism in 1983, he has since led teams of journalists across media platforms.
A specialist in conflict coverage, Gokhale has covered the insurgencies in India’s North-East, the 1999 Kargil conflict and Sri Lanka’s Eelam War IV between 2006-2009.
Gokhale now travels across the globe to speak at seminars and conferences, and lecture at India’s premier defence colleges. He has founded three niche portals, Bharatshakti.in, stratnewsglobal.com and Interstellar.news.
