Interview | Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari PVSM AVSM VM ADC | November 2021

From the IAF’s perspective, what is the future of drone warfare? What anti-drone and counter-drone capabilities are being acquired, both through indigenisation and imports?

Recent use of drones in various conflicts has indicated their employability to achieve asymmetric gains. However, these have been in largely uncontested airspaces. The IAF approach to mitigate this imminent threat is through hard and soft kill options with indigenous solutions.

What has been achieved until now in the domain of network-centricity and data-linking, especially across domains, for instance, ground, air and space? Additionally, with cyber and electronic warfare emerging as new war domains, what steps are being taken to ensure the security of all assets and networks?

Digitisation in the IAF has been one of our key focus areas. The IAF pioneered this wa