Commodore S.L. Deshmukh

Electronic chart systems have transformed maritime navigation, but their promise of safer voyages depends on reliable data and rigorous regulatory compliance. The sea has always punished navigational complacency. For centuries, mariners relied on paper charts, manual plotting and accumulated experience to steer vessels through treacherous waters. These methods remain part of maritime tradition, but modern shipping demands a more integrated approach to navigation. The Electronic Chart Display...

As cheap drones reshape the battlefield, India’s T-SHUL BEAM points to a future in which electronic warfare may matter as much as firepower The drone has definitively become the weapon of choice for the modern battlefield. Cheap, expendable and increasingly autonomous, unmanned aerial vehicles can now threaten troops, armour, airfields and critical infrastructure without requiring the attacker to risk a pilot. Their proliferation has created a corresponding demand for counter-drone systems...

PNS Hunain’s collision with an Indian destroyer is a lethal reminder of Pakistan’s naval recklessness. Pakistan has once again managed to demonstrate that there are few things it enjoys more than creating a problem and then blaming somebody else for it. This time, the theatre was not the Line of Control or a diplomatic conference. It was the North Arabian Sea. On September 15, Pakistan Navy’s PNS Hunain collided with an Indian Navy warship, identified by India as INS Kolkata, in waters where...