Future of design and innovation in defence is electric and miniaturisation Army chief
Ahmedabad Feb 26 PTI Chief of Army Staff General M M Naravane on Saturday said as far as design and innovation in the fields of defence and aerospace is concerned the future is electric and miniaturisation He said that in order to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels there is a need to use electric-based things and added that ships and aircraft have to be small out of necessity in which more features need to be packed He was delivering the inaugural address at the three-day Ahmedabad Design Week organised at citys Karnavati University What is the future as far as design and innovation is concerned in the fields of defence and aerospace In this I think there are two things we have to concentrate upon One is the future is electric he said He said apart from electric vehicles EV for which the Centre has made a clear roadmap there is a need to use electric-based things that are not dependent on fossil fuel We have thousands of generators in forward areas because there is no electricity supply there These generators require fuel and to transport the fuel you require vehicles that has its cost To generate one unit of electricity in forward areas you spend 15 times the cost Can we have some alternative which can generate electricity in forward areas that are not dependent on fossil fuels he asked Future is also in miniaturisationSize of our ships aircraft have to be small out of necessity and in that small space we have to pack more and more features And therefore miniaturisation is one area in which we have to proceed he said He further called for the need to have a far-sighted development and cited the example of tanks which have remained essentially the same all these years When we now talk of design and innovation we have to leapfrog jump two-three steps ahead From a caterpillar we have to become a butterflythat is the kind of innovation and design that we are looking at he said General Naravane said the Indian Army has set up an Army Design Bureau to act as a facilitator between the designer and Army We need your help to make ourselves into a strong Army he said and added the scheme is meant to provide support to start-ups and MSMEs The Army has sought ideas under the programme called Future Ready Combat Vehicle The challenge is how we can make a tank which is radically different from what we have been used to he said He said the Army requires design for the future-ready combat vehicles that remain effective 50 years from now PTI KA PD NP NP
Ahmedabad Feb 26 PTI Chief of Army Staff General M M Naravane on Saturday said as far as design and innovation in the fields of defence and aerospace is concerned the future is electric and miniaturisation He said that in order to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels there is a need to use electric-based things and added that ships and aircraft have to be small out of necessity in which more features need to be packed He was delivering the inaugural address at the three-day Ahmedabad Design Week organised at citys Karnavati University What is the future as far as design and innovation is concerned in the fields of defence and aerospace In this I think there are two things we have to concentrate upon One is the future is electric he said He said apart from electric vehicles EV for which the Centre has made a clear roadmap there is a need to use electric-based things that are not dependent on fossil fuel We have thousands of generators in forward areas because there is no electricity supply there These generators require fuel and to transport the fuel you require vehicles that has its cost To generate one unit of electricity in forward areas you spend 15 times the cost Can we have some alternative which can generate electricity in forward areas that are not dependent on fossil fuels he asked Future is also in miniaturisationSize of our ships aircraft have to be small out of necessity and in that small space we have to pack more and more features And therefore miniaturisation is one area in which we have to proceed he said He further called for the need to have a far-sighted development and cited the example of tanks which have remained essentially the same all these years When we now talk of design and innovation we have to leapfrog jump two-three steps ahead From a caterpillar we have to become a butterflythat is the kind of innovation and design that we are looking at he said General Naravane said the Indian Army has set up an Army Design Bureau to act as a facilitator between the designer and Army We need your help to make ourselves into a strong Army he said and added the scheme is meant to provide support to start-ups and MSMEs The Army has sought ideas under the programme called Future Ready Combat Vehicle The challenge is how we can make a tank which is radically different from what we have been used to he said He said the Army requires design for the future-ready combat vehicles that remain effective 50 years from now PTI KA PD NP NP
