Lt Col Manoj K Channan
328 Articles
Lt Col Manoj K Channan (Retd) served in the Indian Army, Armoured Corps, 65 Armoured Regiment, 27 August 83- 07 April 2007. Operational experience in the Indian Army includes Sri Lanka – OP PAWAN, Nagaland and Manipur – OP HIFAZAT, and Bhalra - Bhaderwah, District Doda Jammu and Kashmir, including setting up of a counter-insurgency school – OP RAKSHAK. He regularly contributes to Defence and Security issues in the Financial Express online, Defence and Strategy, Fauji India Magazine and Salute Magazine.*Views are personal.
Tanks: The Edge of Tomorrow
The tank is not obsolete, but the way it fights must change fundamentally. Modern armoured warfare has shifted from a contest between protected direct-fire...
The New Battlefield: Armour, Drones and AI
The wars in Ukraine and the broader evolution of hybrid warfare have reshaped assumptions about land combat. Persistent unmanned aerial surveillance, FPV drones, loitering...
Reinventing Armour for the Multi-Domain Battlefield
Abstract - Drones, precision munitions, cyber operations, and electronic warfare have not made armoured warfare obsolete; they have made it more demanding. The central...
Regimentation In Modern Warfare: Preserving Tradition, Embracing Change
Military history shows that armies are sustained not merely by weapons, technology, or numerical strength, but by the quality of their soldiers, the character...
Nuremberg, Karma, and the Lessons for Delhi—Power Is Temporary; Accountability Is Not
The historic photograph of the Nuremberg courtroom captures an extraordinary reversal of fortune. Men who had once held positions of immense authority in Nazi...
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Russia’s New 2ES9 Could Transform Heavy Freight on the Trans-Siberian Railway
The first prototype of the new 2ES9 mainline freight...
Russia Revives Its Abandoned T-80 Tank? The Bars Mystery Explained
In October 2026, a television report featured a vehicle...
Rotax Has a New Rival: Russia’s 115-HP M105 Engine Gets Certification Milestone
The APD M105 piston engine has been granted a...
Russia Targets 130 Superjets for Re-Engining as Domestic Engine Production Ramps Up
The re-engining of its existing Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100)...
