An Engineers Innovation Wins Battles and Other Reflections

Readers will find the interaction of military history and field level engineering innovation was an opportunity to implement ideas that surprised the enemy, winning air battles and helping to change the course of the 1971 war. Are you ready to dream of such ideas in your fertile brains?


I have no hesitation in saying that pilot officer Rao’s contribution saved the Government of India a huge amount of foreign exchange and enhanced the war potential.

– Air Chief Marshal N.C. Suri (Retd.)