DELHI, India -- Indian Army's serving Director General of Air Defense, Lt Gen VK Saxena has penned a book "Ground-Based Air Defense - Contemporary Issues", which delas with a wide spectrum of domain issues.

The book fills a long standing void of a quality reference material in the ever-evolving domain of Ground Based Air Defense. The author, in his selection of topics, has covered the entire continuum of issues that may engage the mind of a professional air defence warrior today.

"The author has dealt with each topic with great diligence and scholarly rigour, picking up the threads from the past, highlighting the contours of the present and making a reasonable prognosis by peeping into the future. This makes the book highly readable, besides providing a vast repository of some excellent reference material," says a review in Defence Quarterly.

Lt Gen A Mukherjee, a former Director General of Army Air Defence has called it “A thoroughly professional work that provides an excellent coverage of contemporary issues in Air Defense.”

The book covers Air Defense against UAVs, Manned and Unmanned Teaming, Ballistic Missile Defense, Stealth and Counter Stealth, Air Defense Weapons: Future Kill Options, Electronic Counter Measures, Air Defense Gun Ammunition, Key Trends in Integrated AD Systems Concept, Air Defense Battle Management Systems, Simulation in Ground Based AD Training, Air and AD Campaign of the Gulf War 1991, The WZ10 vs AH 64E Debate and Air Attack - Air Defense Cause Effect.

The book has been published by IMR Media Pvt Ltd (response@idyb.com) and is priced at Rs 495 in India and $45 abroad inclusive of p&p.


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