Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena is the former Director General of the Corps of Army Air Defence. He has been decorated three times by the President of India. Presently, he is the Distinguished Fellow at VIF. The General is a prolific writer who has authored five books and is regularly published by the Defence media of the country. He is also a regular at TV shows contributing on many a defence issues. Here he speaks about the all powering role of air defence in national security. The views in the podcast are solely the author’s. He can be contacted at editor.adu@gmail.com.

DRDO’s Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully test fired indigenously developed Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missiles (QRSAM) from ITR Chandipur, Odisha on February 26, 2019.

Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena is the former Director General of the Corps of Army Air Defence