Ajey Lele

India’s mission for understanding the dynamics of the Sun

January 08, 2024

Consultant, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Gp Capt Ajey Lele’s article ‘India’s mission for understanding the dynamics of the Sun’ has been published in The Space Review on 8 January 2024.

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8 January, 2024 |

PSLV-C58 Mission: ISRO Launches a Science Satellite

Ajey Lele

January 03, 2024

Consultant, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Gp Capt Ajey Lele’s article ‘PSLV-C58 mission: ISRO launches a science satellite’ has been published in Financial Express on 3 January 2024. This satellite would be looking for all around 50 potential cosmic sources to collect information and the mission life would be around five years, says Gp Capt Lele.

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3 January, 2024 |

A Look at China’s Ambitious Spaceplane Missions

Ajey Lele

January 01, 2024

Consultant, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Gp Capt Ajey Lele’s article ‘A Look at China’s Ambitious Spaceplane Missions’ has been published in The Wire on 1 January 2024. In December, China launched its third spaceplane mission, deploying six 'mysterious wingmen' into the Earth's orbit which are being tracked by the US Space Force, says Gp Capt Lele.

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1 January, 2024 |

Chemical Weapons Convention: Past, Present and Future

The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is an arms control treaty that outlaws the production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons and their precursors. This convention came into force on 29 April 1997. This convention is the effort of some 20 years of negotiations at the Conference of Disarmament (CD).

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Occasional Papers

The Existing Biological Threat: Evaluating the Seventh Review Conference of the BTWC

Bio terrorism is emerging more as possibility in the 21st century not only because of the changing nature of terrorism but also because of rapid growth in life sciences. These developments have been a concern for the BWC regime. In this backdrop the paper discusses the 7th Review Conference which was concluded in December 2011.

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Occasional Papers

India’s Nuclear Triad: A Net Assessment

This paper discusses such delivery mechanisms commonly known together as nuclear triad in the Indian context. The paper has four major parts. The first part attempts to set the context for the overall discussion. The second, third and fourth parts deals with the evaluation about missile forces, aerial platforms and submarine based platforms for nuclear weapon delivery on the targets.

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Occasional Papers

Analysing China’s Digital and Space Belt and Road Initiative

The recently held second Belt and Road forum in April 2019 based on the theme “Shaping a Brighter Shared Future" gained considerable momentum in the world community. BRI has been an ever evolving concept that has changed considerably since its inception in 2013. It has generated a blend of optimism and consternation around the world.

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Occasional Papers

Hypersonic Weapons

Hypersonic weapons are weapons that move at speeds of Mach 5 or more. Presently, hypersonic weapon technology is a work in progress and these weapons are yet to become fully operational for military deployment.

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Occasional Papers

Weather and Warfare

Publishers: IDSA and Lancer Publishers & Distributors
ISBN: 81-7062-145-3
Rs. 595

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Book

Asia 2030: The Unfolding Future

Publisher: Lancer

This book is an effort to understand how the future will unfold in Asia 2030. This book has addressed issues ranging from air-power, cyber security, climate change, ballistic missile defence to geo-political and regional issues pertaining to East Asia, South East Asia and South Asia. Based primarily on the method of scenario building, this book is an attempt to discuss the future of critical issues related to security and the international relations of Asia in 2030.