**8. Conclusion**

In the modern warfare, air power plays a very significant role in both offensive attack role and defending the country's land and water space. Judicious mix of

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aviation assets.

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Kanchan Biswas1,2

1 CSIR-NAL, Bangalore, India

2 CEMILAC, DRDO, Bangalore, India

provided the original work is properly cited.

\*Address all correspondence to: kanchan.biswas@rediffmail.com

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improvement of air armament lethality.

various types of combat and noncombat aircraft increases the war power of both army and navy. Competition to develop more effective air weapon is thus neverending. Huge research effort is being spent on development of sophisticated

military aircraft with precision navigation, weapon aiming and targeting along with

Aviation is also associated with various safety issues. While in civil aviation, ICAO regulations take care of aviation safety issues of the member states, military aviation safety is controlled by each state according to their own military doctrine. To make military aviation safe, the authorities must exercise effective regulatory control during design and development, operation and maintenance of the military

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*Certification procedure [13].*

**Figure 10.**

**Figure 9.**

*Airworthiness functions [13].*

In the modern warfare, air power plays a very significant role in both offensive attack role and defending the country's land and water space. Judicious mix of

various types of combat and noncombat aircraft increases the war power of both army and navy. Competition to develop more effective air weapon is thus neverending. Huge research effort is being spent on development of sophisticated military aircraft with precision navigation, weapon aiming and targeting along with improvement of air armament lethality.

Aviation is also associated with various safety issues. While in civil aviation, ICAO regulations take care of aviation safety issues of the member states, military aviation safety is controlled by each state according to their own military doctrine. To make military aviation safe, the authorities must exercise effective regulatory control during design and development, operation and maintenance of the military aviation assets.
