RBT's Defense Blog

We all talk of giving women equal rights, and efforts have been made to allow women to compete with men. In many areas’ women given the opportunity have made good progress and have broken through the ‘glass ceiling’. But in many places, they still face the problem and defense is one such area. While in many Western countries women have reached top positions in defense forces commanding thousands of troops, squadrons, and battleships, in India it’s still a problem and women who are in defense services have to face a lot of hardships to reach a top position or even so, get respect as a leading officer or commander of a unit traditionally dominated by men. Cases of sexual harassment and asking for sexual favors from female counterparts by male seniors have not helped their case either. While women in India have served in the medical branch for a long; only now are they being given permanent commission that too only in law and other non-combat areas. Although the most emphatic victory, I...

India has successfully conducted a flight trial of a long-range hypersonic missile, significantly boosting the country's military readiness. This missile is designed to carry various payloads for ranges greater than 1500 km or 930 miles for the armed forces. This allows India to join a select group of nations possessing all 3 types of long-range hypersonic missiles, besides Russia and China. The missile was tracked by various range systems deployed across multiple domains. Flight data obtained from down-range ship stations confirmed the successful terminal maneuvers and impact with a high degree of accuracy. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), conducted the trials of this missile on Saturday night, from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast from a mobile articulated launcher, in the presence of senior DRDO scientists and members of the Armed Forces. This missile has been indigenously developed by the ...

               Radio waves were first mapped out and harnessed back in 1873. Since that time, radio frequencies and microwaves have been used in numerous applications from the telegraph and the first radio broadcasts making their way into people's homes to radar technology and musical instruments. They also paved the way for military drones, satellites, and the internet among other modern-day essentials. GaAs, or gallium arsenide and GaN, or gallium nitride are the 2 most important semiconductor material that are used for building high-power microwave switches and amplifiers, more specifically TR module-based radar assemblies in fighter jets. While GaN has emerged as the leading semiconductor material for high-power microwave switches and amplifiers, GaAs is still the preferred material of choice for low noise. What and Why Are These Used For It's important to understand what semiconductors are and why they're important for RF power ampl...