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Surveillance Balloon or Breakaway Airship ?
A Chinese Conundrum !
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Prof. Rajkumar S. Pant
Lighter-Than-Air Systems Laboratory, Aerospace Engineering Department
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai
Tuesday, February 21, 2023, 9 AM PST
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(Left) Micro Airship @ IIT Bombay; (Middle) Mini Airship @ Pune; (Right) Macro Airship @ Manali
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This talk will provide a short description of the recent incidents in which an un-authorized aerial object (claimed as a surveillance balloon by US authorities, and a breakaway civilian airship by Chinese authorities) was shot down by an F-22 aircraft. This was followed by further sightings and shooting down of several similar (and not so similar) objects. We will describe the incidents based on the reports available, and also provide our insights on the issue, to try and obtain a solution to this modern conundrum, which has led to a worsening of the diplomatic relations between USA and China.
Prof. Rajkumar S. Pant has been a member of faculty of Aerospace Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay since December 1989. He has also worked for five years in Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in the Design & Engineering Department at Kanpur (3.5 years) and Nasik (1.5 years) Divisions. Prof. Pant is an alumnus of College of Aeronautics, Cranfield University, UK, where he earned his Ph.D. under Commonwealth Scholarship Scheme, and IIT Madras, where he did his Masters in Aeronautical Engineering.
He has published and presented > 260 scientific papers, of which > 190 are in international journals and conferences. He was a visiting faculty for a year each at Nanyang Technological University in 2016, and Virginia Tech in 2010-11. He has also carried out several short-term assignments at several top-ranking institutes and universities all over the world such as Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Brazil in 2012, Texas A&M University in 2011, Cambridge University in 2008, and Imperial College London in 2006. In 2102, he was appointed as a Special Visiting Researcher under the Science Without Borders program of the Brazilian Government for a three-year project.
Prof. Pant was honored with the Uttarakhand Science Pioneer Award at the 17th State Science Congress of Uttarakhand held in February 2023. He has won three awards for excellence in teaching at IIT Bombay, viz., Departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2022, Hotchand and Jamunabai Lala Teaching Award in 2021, and D P Joshi Excellent Teacher Award in 2014. He received Special Recognition in Academic Excellence (Faculty-National category) award by Institution of Engineers (India) in January 2021. In 2019, he was felicitated by Institution of Engineers (India) as an Eminent Engineering personality in Aerospace Engineering.
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