The document, prepared after a year of internal deliberations and inputs from stakeholders, also envisages the deployment of Project Sudharshan Chakra – a multi-layered defence system for the protection of strategic and civilian assets – in the 2030-40 time frame.
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“Future wars will be defined by agility, speed and precision and hence we will need to develop the capability to respond effectively to traditional and emerging threats,” it notes.
New vision document envisages Sudharshan Chakra Project in 2030-40 time frame
The 2047 roadmap relies heavily on indigenisation and the domestic defence industrial complex raising up the challenges of an uncertain world and explicitly lays out the requirement to create a surge capacity to meet the requirements of prolonged high intensity operations.
Focus on indigenous research and development of niche and complex systems and encouraging indigenous capability development are central to the roadmap, with the armed forces also looking to create more dual use infrastructure in the near future.On the policy front, the key changes planned for the coming years are the creation of a data force and a drone force. This is likely to include induction of highly skilled personnel from the private sector into the armed forces through lateral induction and better utilisation of avenues like the Territorial Army. The Agniveer scheme is also likely to be modified to meet the requirements.
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In addition, there are also plans to create a geo spatial agency that would concentrate on utilising air and space based assets for monitoring, tracking and targeting areas of interest. A Cognitive Warfare Action Force in the works will work in the domain of information and psychological warfare. The armed forces have also reiterated their plans to create two new commands – for space and cyber warfare.
3-Phase Roadmap
First one ends by 2030 and is referred to as a transition phase where the aim will be organisational restructuring for multi-domain operations, deter adversaries from provoking conflicts, contain standoffs and focus on acquiring indigenous capacities.
Second phase (2030-40) looks at achieving integration and ability to carry out multi-domain operations by integration of space, cyber and data capabilities.
Final phase (2040-47) is aimed to end with transformation of defence forces into a world class military capable of meeting threats and challenges by ensuring freedom of operations across all domains.
