Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier-Lemon?

[Astra]

India has a big Industrial Infrustructure and is producing more components of military requirements on large scale, I agree, but lack of production has put all to bay of bengal ....
QUOTE]

I dont know where you read this!!
Only missile tests are done in Bay of Beagal, rest will be deployed both in bay of bengal, arabian sea, and our borders, to meet any challenge against India.lol

 

[KENT]

Even if we are 60% self reliant ???

India is not even 50% self reliant in Military Hardware.. I will give 25% at most..

Seems to me still suffering serious comprehension problem.

 

[Proud to be Pakistani]

Seems to me still suffering serious comprehension problem.

Seems to me you are too old to grow up quickly..

 

[Proud to be Pakistani]

India has a big Industrial Infrustructure and is producing more components of military requirements on large scale, I agree, but lack of production has put all to bay of bengal ....
QUOTE]

I dont know where you read this!!
Only missile tests are done in Bay of Beagal, rest will be deployed both in bay of bengal, arabian sea, and our borders, to meet any challenge against India.lol

Dude it was a Joke ...........



Meaning that less production of defence equipment is not utilizing the components which can be produced in India and hence its going to get dumped into Ocean . i.e. Bay of Bengal

 

[KENT]

Lets keep the discussion healthy what you say

Take pakistan out of the loop and all the indigineous works / Joint ventures by Pakistan and India Out..

I donot agree that we both countries are 10% self reliant in Military hardware..

India has a big Industrial Infrustructure and is producing more components of military requirements on large scale, I agree, but lack of production has put all to bay of bengal ....

Efforts are being done to get 30% self reliant in decade or so is what i will understand ....

Dear Professor, life is very complex then what you used to perceived, whatever your above reckoning only goes to show that, you only know about only 0.0% of Indian defence industry. You don’t even have the aptitude to measure the percentage of homegrown products in our Indian defence establishment. You don’t even have the capability to go beyond LCA & Arjun and thus usual harping about their delays.



Hey, you know what, the percentage of Indian industrial involvement in defence circle is not merely 30%, but it is somewhere around 60-70%.



On previous occasion, you rightly referred astra, as he had’t even born since this developments are going on, but still he is fortunate to have such distinction. But now listen, the span and coverage of our defence products and services is so wide that, it will take several generation for you to have privliage of having association with such numerous defence projects.





So let me summarize what our defence industry have been doing all this year.



Following are the brief summary of BEL developed defence products.



Communication

Military Communications


Military Switching





Military communications



Transmission Equipments


Communication Networks


Data Communication


High Frequency


Hand Held /Base Station


Radio Relay


Secure Communications


V/UHF


VHF







Military Switching



Unit Level Switch Board MK-III

Unit Level Switch Board MK-II

Semi Ruggedised Automatic Exchange

SRAX MK II

Digital Exchange (DEX)

Time Division Modular Exchange (TIDEX










Radar



3D Mobile Radar

Low Flying Detection Radar

Tactical Control Radar

Secondary Surveillance Radar

Low Level Air Defence System

Battle Field Surveillance Radar- Medium Range

Battle Range Surveillance Radar- Short Range








Naval Systems

RADARS


SONARS


FIRE CONTROL SYSTEMS


COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS







Naval Radar





Colour Tactical Display

L Band Surveillance Radar

Air and Surface Surveillance Radar

Medium Range Surveillance Radar

Navigational Radar

Long Range Air Warning Radar






Naval Sonars



Hull Mounted Variable Depth Sonar

Hull Mounted Sonar Advanced

Towed Torpedo Decoy




Naval Fire Control System



Naval Fire Control Radar

Optical Director System

TV Camera




Naval Communication



ATM based Integrated Shipboard Data Network

Composite Communication System(CCS) Mk-II

Composite Communication System (CCS) Mk III

VERSATILE CONSOLE SYSTEM (VCS) MK II














Opto Electronics

Laser Range Finder LH30

Laser Range Finder Eyesafe – LRF 310

Gap measuring Device - GAP MK I

Integrated Laser Cum Night Vision GMD MK II

Hand Held Thermal Imager

ANGULAR MEASUREMENT DEVICE

Binocular Hand Held Thermal Imager

FORWARD OBSERVERS VIDEO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

Uncooled Thermal Imager BEAUTI-0602

BATTERY PRODUCTS


X-RAY PRODUCTS









Electronic Warfare System

Electronic Warfare Systems
In modern warfare, electronically guided weapon systems have a kill probability close to unity while command, control and communication systems ensure effective co-ordination of the available resources. This makes undefended vital installations easy targets for destruction. Improper operation of the electronic circuits would make the weapon system as well as the command, control and communication infrastructure totally ineffective. It is, hence, seen that if counter-electronic systems are used to reduce the effectiveness of the electronic circuits, the end result of the battle could be different.

The technique and technology, that result in the manufacturing of systems, capable of electronically degrading an electronic system is called “ELECTRONIC WARFARE” .

Effective use of Electronic Warfare is only possible if sufficient knowledge of the electronic equipment used by the enemy is available. BEL has the know-how for designing and developing Electronic Warfare Systems in the areas of Signal Intelligence, Electronic Counter Measure and Electronic Support Measure.









Tank Electronics

Tank Intercom System R-174

Combat Net Radio - AFV

Indigenous Gunners Main Sight for MBT

Advanced Land Navigation System for AFVs

Tank Stabilizer

Digital Universal Control Harness for AFVs




Simulators

Driving Simulator - SIMU DRIVE

Crew Gunnery Simulator

Ship Handling Simulator

Anti Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) Indoor Simulator

Tank Driving Simulator






DRDO developed products



The DRDO provided key avionics for the Su-30 MKI program under the "Vetrivel" program.



DRDO's radar computers, manufactured by HAL are also being exported to Malaysia for its Su-30 MKM program



The DRDO's avionics program has been a success story; its Mission computers, radar warning receivers, high accuracy direction finding pods, airborne jammers, flight instrumentation, are used across a wide variety of Indian Air Force aircraft.



The DRDO is part of the Indian Air Force's upgrade programs for its MiG-27 and Sepecat Jaguar combat aircraft upgrades,





The DRDO- HAL upgrades are also part of the 37 new build Jaguar strike aircraft ordered in addition to the fleet upgrade.



For the MiG-27 and Jaguar upgrades, DRDO, HAL, IAF and private industry developed:



Modern HOTAS controls
Improved stores management system
Solid state flight data recorder
Mission planning system
Cockpit instrumentation and some displays
Secured Communication System INCOM-1210A, stand-by UHF Communication System COM-1150A, radio altimeter RAM-1701A, 1FF- 1410A
Core Avionics computers for mission computing and display processing
Defensive avionics- Tarang radar warning receivers for both aircraft, Tempest self protection jammers for the MiG-27
Improved environmental control systems specifically built for high temperature Indian climatic conditions










Other laboratories have also chipped in, from the radar specialist LRDE, to Electronic warfare focused DEAL to the ADE, which develops UAVs and flight control systems. The DRDO is also codeveloping more advanced avionics for the Light Combat Aircraft and the IAF's combat fleet. These include a range of powerful Open Architecture computers, better Defensive avionics including modern RWR's, Self protection jammers, Missile approach warning systems and integrated defensive suites, Optronics systems (such as Infrared search and track systems) and navigational systems such as Ring Laser Gyro based Inertial navigational systems. Other items under development include digital Map generators, a Modern multi-mode fire control radar (the LCA-MMR), Helmet mounted displays and Smart multifunctional displays.





The DRDO has also developed two unmanned aerial vehicles- the Nishant (Restless in Hindi) tactical UAV and the Lakshya (Target in Hindi) Pilotless Target Aircraft (PTA).[









DRDO has been responsible for the indigenization of key defence stores and equipment. Indian Air Force pilots use DRDO developed g-suits, flight suits overalls, helmets, oxygen masks, gloves and automatic inflatable life jackets.[



For the Indian Army, the DRDO developed the Pinaka Multi Barrel Rocket Launcher. This system has seen significant success, and orders for two regiments have been placed, apart from the one in service. The Army expects to raise more units in the future. This system saw the DRDO cooperate extensively with the privately owned industrial sector in India, namely the TATA Group's Strategic Electronics Division, and Larsen & Toubro Ltd. [





DRDO's ARDE developed 81 mm [21], 120 mm illuminating bombs[22] and 105 mm illuminating shells [23] for the Indian Army's infantry and Artillery.





The DRDO's ARDE developed a 51 mm Light Weight Infantry Platoon Mortar for the Indian Army. A man portable weapon, the 51 mm mortar achieves double the range of 2 inch mortar without any increase in weight. Its new HE bomb uses pre-fragmentation technology to achieve vastly improved lethality vis a vis a conventional bomb. Besides HE, a family of ammunition comprising smoke, illuminating and practice bombs has also been developed. [24] The weapon system is under production at Ordnance Factories



Proximity fuses for missiles and artillery shells. Proximity fuses are used with artillery shells for "air bursts" against entrenched troops and in anti-aircraft and anti-missile roles as well. These systems are in production at various defence public sector units and Ordnance factories



Training Devices: These include a Mortar training device for the 81 mm mortar used by the Infantry, a Mortar training device for the 120 mm mortar used by the Artillery, and a 0.50 inch subcalibre training device for 105 mm Vijayanta tank gun.[









The Indian Field Gun, a 105 mm field gun was developed for the Indian Army and is in production at the Ordnance Factory Board. [27] This was a significant challenge for the OFB, and various issues were faced with its manufacture including reliability issues and metallurgical problems. These were rectified over time.




For the Indian Navy, the DRDO developed Submerged Signal Ejector cartridges (SSE), limpet mines, Short range anti-submarine rockets (with HE and practice warheads), the Indian Sea Mine which can be deployed against ships and submarines both. The DRDO also designed short and medium range ECM rockets which deploy chaff to decoy away anti-ship homing missiles. In a similar vein, they also developed a 3 in (76.2 mm) PFHE shell, prefragmented and with a proximity fuse [28], for use against anti-ship missiles and other targets, by the Navy. All these items are in production





For the Indian Air Force, DRDO has developed Retarder Tail Units and fuze systems for the 450 kg bomb used by strike aircraft, 68 mm "Arrow" rockets (HE, Practice and HEAT) for rocket pods used in an air to ground and even air to air (if need be), a 450 kg high speed low drag (HSLD) bomb (as draggy munitions adversely impact aircraft payload and endurance) and practice bombs (which mimic different projectiles with the addition of suitable drag plates) and escape aid cartridges for Air Force aircraft. All these items are in production at the State owned Ordnance Factories.[16][17]
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The massive Samyukta, land based EW project, comprising of 145 vehicles. The Samyukta consists of ESM and ECM stations for both communication and non-com (radar etc) systems. The Indian Army has ordered the Samyukta with its Signal Corps being a prime contributor in the design and development stage, along with the DRDO's DLRL. Prominent partners in the effort included India's multi-billion dollar Tata Group of Industries and state owned Bharat Electronics and Electronics Corporation of India. Various other industries supplied locally made components







The DRDO is also developing an all new ESM project in cooperation with the Signals Intelligence Directorate, under the name of "Divya Drishti" (Divine Sight in Sanskrit). Divya Drishti will field a range of static as well as mobile ESM stations that can "fingerprint" and track multiple airborne targets for mission analysis purposes. The system will be able to intercept a range of radio frequency emissions, whether radar, navigational, communication or electronic countermeasure signals. The various components of the project will be networked via SATCOM links.




The Safari IED suppression system for the Army and paramilitary forces, plus the Sujav ESM system meant for high accuracy direction finding and jamming of communication transceivers. Both systems have been ordered in substantial numbers and are in production.







The Sangraha, naval EW program successfully productionized, comprising of a range of ESM and combined EW systems, from the Ellora EW suite on India's newest frontline warships to ESM systems on the Navy's light ships, Do-228, Tu-142 aircraft and its Kamov helicopters. The Sangraha family includes EW suites for different Naval platforms capable of intercepting, detecting and classifying pulsed, CW, PRF agile, frequency agile and chirp radars. These different systems employ a modular approach enabling their deployment on a variety of platforms such as helicopters, vehicles, small ships to frontline ships. Some platforms have ESM while others have ESM and ECM (jamming) ability. Several state-of-the-art technologies have been developed via this program, for instance- the Ellora EW suite has Multiple Beam Phased array jammers for simultaneous handling of multiple threats







The Roshni (illumination in Hindi) RWR for the Indian Navy's Sea Harrier fighters derived from the Indian Air Force's Tarang RWR's, MiG-29K's as well as Electronic Warfare pods.[21]







State of the art radar warning receivers for the Indian Air Force- the Tarang (Spectrum in Hindi) series. These have been selected for most of the Indian Air Force's aircraft- MiG-21 Upgrade ( designation: Bison), MiG-29, Su-30 MKI, MiG- 27 Upgrade, Jaguar Upgrade as well as self protection upgrades for the transport fleet (Il-76, An-32). The Tranquil RWR for MiG -23s (superseded by the Tarang project). Tempest jamming system for the Air Force's MiG's. The latest variant of the Tempest jamming system is capable of noise, barrage, as well as deception jamming as it makes use of DRFM (Digital radio frequency memory). The DRDO has also developed a High Accuracy Direction Finding system (HADF) for the Indian Air Force's Su-30 MKIs which are fitted in the modular "Siva" pod capable of supersonic carriage.[22] This HADF pod is meant to cue Kh-31 Anti radiation missiles used by the Su-30 MKI for SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defences).
Additional DRDO EW projects delivered to the Indian




Additional DRDO EW projects delivered to the Indian Air Force have include the COIN A and COIN B SIGINT stations. DRDO and BEL developed ELINT equipment for the Indian Air Force, installed on the service's Boeing 737's and Hawker Siddeley Avro aircraft. DRDO has also developed a Radar Fingerprinting System for the IAF and the Navy. The Indian Air Force's AEW&C systems currently being developed by the DRDO will also include a comprehensive ESM suite, capable of picking up both radars as well as conduct Coment (communication intelligence).






Starting with a modest design aim, the DRDO has steadily increased its radar development footprint across a range of systems. The result has been substantial progress in India's ability to design and manufacture high power radar systems of its own design and with locally manufactured components and systems. The path began with the development of short range 2D systems (Indra-1) and has now extended to high power 3D systems intended for strategic purposes (LRTR). Several other projects span the gamut of radar applications, from airborne surveillance (AEW & C) to firecontrol radars (land based, and airborne). The key aim, as far as DRDO is concerned, is self reliance, both in terms of design as well as manufacture. In this respect, the DRDO has built up a network of suppliers from across India who assist it on these projects.







The DRDO's productionized as well as production ready radar systems include:

The Indra series of 2D radars meant for Army and Air Force use. Indra, stands for the "Indian Doppler Radar", and coincidentally enough, Indra is also the King of the deities in Hindu scripture. This was the first high power radar developed by the DRDO, with the Indra -I radar for the Indian Army, followed by Indra Pulse Compression (PC) version for the Indian Air Force, also known as the Indra-II, which is a low level radar to search and track low flying cruise missiles, helicopters and aircraft. These are basically 2D radars which provide range, and azimuth information, and are meant to be used as gapfillers. The Indra 2 PC has pulse compression providing improved range resolution. The IAF has ordered seven Indra-II's from Bharat Electronics Ltd (the manufacturer). Thirty Indra-I's have been previously ordered by the IAF. The Army is another customer for the Indra-II and has ordered a number of the type.[23]
The 3D Rajendra fire control radar for the Akash SAM: Whilst Blocks 1 and 2 are ready, and being used for trials, an improved Block 3 has now been revealed. The Rajendra Block 3 is stated to be ready and is being used for trials. However, it can be expected that further iterative improvements will nonetheless be made; as this is the case in all programs of this nature worldwide. The Rajendra is a high power, Passive electronically scanned array radar, able to guide up to 12 Akash SARH SAM's against aircraft flying at low to medium altitudes. The Block III has a detection range of 80 km with 18 km height coverage against small fighter sized targets and is able to track 64 of them, engaging 4 simultaneously, with up to 3 missiles per target. The Rajendra features a fully digital high speed signal processing system with adaptive moving target indicator, coherent signal processing, FFTs, and variable pulse repetition frequency. The Radar comprises surveillance antenna array with 4000 elements operating in the G/H-Band (4-8 GHz), an engagement antenna array with another 1000 elements operating in the I/J-Band (8-20 GHz) for command guidance, a 16-element IFF array and steering. The critical phase control modules were developed by CEL Ltd., India in cooperation with IIT Delhi and the DRDO. The manufacturing facility was set up by CEL Ltd. and transferred to BEL, for bulk production of the phase control modules. The Block III is substantially different from the earlier blocks in that its fielded on a T-72 chassis instead of a BMP, and its entire PESA antenna array can now swivel 360 degrees on a rotating platform. This allows the radar antenna to be rapidly repositioned, and even conduct all round surveillance.[24]
The 3D medium range Central Acquisition Radar, a state of the art planar array, S Band radar operating on the stacked beam principle. With a range of 180 km against fighter sized targets, it can track while scan 200 of them. Its systems are integrated on high mobility, locally built TATRA trucks for the Army and Air Force; however the CAR design is meant to be used by all three services. The Planar array was codeveloped by DRDO with a Polish firm with both the DRDO and the firm sharing design rights, whereas the rest of the hardware and signal processing were done locally. Initially developed for the long running Akash SAM system, the radar tasted success, when seven were ordered by the Indian Air Force for their radar modernization program, and two of another variant were ordered by the Indian Navy for their P-28 Corvettes. Since 4-6 P-28 Corvettes are ultimately planned, additional orders for the CAR are very likely, once the Navy finalizes its production run. The CAR has been a significant success for radar development in India, with its state of the art signal processing hardware. The order for 9 radars is Rs 360 crores, or approximately 81 million USD at 2006 prices.[25]
The 2D BFSR-SR, a short range Battle Field Surveillance Radar, meant to be manportable. 1176 have been ordered by the Army from BEL and it is being exported as well. Designed and developed by LRDE, the project was a systematic example of concurrent engineering, with the production agency involved through the design and development stage. This enabled the design to be brought into production quickly. Other features were the high amount of involvement of the private sector, which LRDE maintained throughout the project. Private firms supplied the rotational assembly and tripod, the Control and display unit as well as electronics assemblies after design and technology transfer by LRDE. This has continued into the substantial production run.[26] 100 radars will be exported to Indonesia.[27]
The 3D airborne Super Vision-2000 naval surveillance radar, meant for helicopters and light transport aircraft. The SV-2000 is a lightweight (approximately 100 kg), yet high performance, slotted array radar operating in the X Band. It can detect sea-surface targets such as a periscope or a vessel, against heavy clutter, and can also be used for navigation, weather mapping and beacon detection. The radar can detect a large vessel at over 100 nautical miles (370 km). The SV-2000s design has been accepted by the Navy and it is currently under modification to be fitted to the Advanced Light Helicopter, and the Navy's Do-228's. Variants can be fitted to the Navy's Ka-25's as well. In October 2004, Defense News reported that the Indian Navy had ordered 10 SV-2000s from Bharat Electronics Ltd. (the designated manufacturer) at a cost of US$600,000 each. The SV-2000 reportedly cost US$2.2 million to design and develop. BEL would also look for exporting the system, once naval requirements were met.[28]
The 3D AESA Long Range Tracking Radar: The LRTR was developed with assistance from Elta of Israel, and is similar to Elta's proven GreenPine long range Active Array radar. The DRDO developed the signal processing and software for tracking high speed ballistic missile targets as well as introduced more ruggedization. The radar uses mostly Indian designed and manufactured components such as its critical high power, L Band Transmit-Receive modules plus the other enabling technologies necessary for active phased array radars. In 2004, DRDO noted that its LRTR could track 200 targets and had a range of above 400 km. In 2006, more details emerged; the LRTR could detect targets as far away as 500 km and beyond, including Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles, and that India now had the capability to manufacture these radars on its own. In the words of Dr VK Saraswat, the Anti Ballistic Missile program project Director, the project was launched in the beginning of 2000, and a functional radar was ready some five years later. Dr. Saraswat also noted that the LRTR would be amongst the key elements of the Indian ABM system; DRDO would provide the technology to private and public manufacturers to make these high power systems, and BEL India would make these systems locally. A similar arrangement was employed in the successful 3D CAR project with several public and private firms receiving and productionizing the technology provided by the DRDO.[29]
The 2D Low Level Lightweight Radar(LLLR) for the Army, which require many of these units. The Indian Air Force will also acquire the same for key airbases. The LLLR is a 2D radar with a range of 40 km against a 2Sq Mtr target, intended as a gapfiller to plug detection gaps versus low level aircraft in an integrated Air Defence Ground network. The LLLR makes use of Indra-2 technology, namely a similar antenna array, but has roughly half the range and is much smaller and a far more portable unit. The Indra 2 is vehicle deployed and has a larger logistical footprint. Named the "Bharani", the LLLR can track while scan 100 targets and provide details about their speed, azimuth and range to the operator. The LLLR makes use of the BFSR-SR experience and many of the subsystem providers are the same. Multiple LLLRs can be netted together. The LLLR is meant to act as a tripwire against low level intruders, and will alert Army Air Defence fire control units (which use Bharat Electronics manufactured Improved Reporter 3D radars) to cue their weapon systems.[30]
DRDO has indigenised components and improved subsystems of various other license produced radars manufactured at BEL, India, with the help of BEL scientists and other researchers. These improvements include new radar data processors for license produced Signaal radars as well as local radar assemblies replacing the earlier imported ones. Several of these items, which include waveguide arrays and antennas have better performance than the original systems that they replaced.
Apart from the above, the DRDO has also several other radar systems under development, these include:

The 3D Weapon Locating Radar: Successfully developed from the Rajendra fire control radar for the Akash system, this radar uses a passive electronically scanned array to detect multiple targets for fire correction and weapon location. The system has been developed and demonstrated to the Army and orders have been placed upon BEL to gear up for series manufacture of 28 of these radars. It is currently in the penultimate series of trials to fine tune its features, to save money and time, as series production begins. The orders will be worth Rs/- 3000 Crore (Over 660 Million $) spread over many years.[31]
The 3D Multi-mode radar, a HAL project of which DRDO is a subsystem provider, this project to develop an advanced, lightweight Multimode fire control radar for the LCA Tejas fighter, has faced stiff challenges and been struck by delay. Help has been sought from other R&D organizations, manufacturers to bring it to fruition. The multimode radar is a greater than 100 km range (detection of a small fighter target), 10 target track, two target engage, lightweight system with an all-up weight of only 130 kg. At the Aero India Trade fair in 2007, it was revealed that an all new combined signal and data processor had been developed, replacing the original separate units. Substantial weight and volume savings apart, the new unit is much more powerful and makes use of contemporary ADSP processors. The other radar critical hardware has also been developed and validated, however work remains on the software front. The software for the air to air mode has been developed considerably (including search and track while scan in both look up and look down modes) but air to ground modes are being still worked upon. The radar development was shown to be considerably more mature than previously thought. More than a 100 MMRs will be manufactured, once it proves itself.[32]
A new 3D Airborne Warning and Control based on Active Electronically Scanned Array radar technology developed by the DRDO. This project was launched in 2005 for the Indian Air Force and has signed up for two aircraft to begin with and with more thereafter. The design plus the first system is to be certified by 2010 and the second by 2012. Further orders are likely, either based on the existing design or more capable derivatives. The aim of the project is to develop inhouse capability for high power AEW&C systems, with the system covering the development of a S Band AESA array. The AEW&C aircraft platform has been reported to be Brazil's Embraer EMB-145. The aircraft will also have DRDO developed datalinks to link fighters plus communicate with the IAF's C3I infrastructure, as well as a local SATCOM (satellite communication system), along with other onboard ESM and COMINT systems of DRDO design and local manufacture.[33]
3D Short Range Radar for the Indian Air Force: The Indian Air Force has ordered 20 of these systems from the DRDO, which are to begin delivery from 2008 onwards. The radars will have a range of approximately 50 km against small fighter-sized targets and will be able to determine their range, speed, azimuth and height. This radar will enable the Indian Air Force Air Defence units to accurately track low level intruders. The radar will make use of the alliance DRDO has forged with Indian private and public firms.
A 2D Medium Range Battlefield Surveillance Radar: A short video image of the BFSR-MR was displayed by the DRDO at Aero-India 2007, an Aerospace trade fair held in India. The Indian Army has till date, utilized imported BFSR-MR units from Elta, license manufactured by Bharat Electronics Ltd. The DRDO's BFSR-MR will supplant these radars with this locally designed and manufactured unit, with all of its attendant advantages, including the ability to modify it substantially per local requirements as and when they arise, without seeking the permission or assistance of a foreign vendor. Several private firms are expected to provide components as well. As with the BFSR-SR, the Army is expected to order a substantial number of these longer ranged units for its Surveillance and Target Acquisition Units. The BFSR-MR can be expected to be tied into the Indian Army's DRDO- BEL developed Battlefield Surveillance System via VHF/UHF links. This 2D radar will track ground targets and provide key intelligence to the Indian Army's artillery units, with the resultant information available on various tactical networks.
The 3D Multi Function Control Radar: A substantial project by itself, the MFCR is being developed as part of the Indian anti-ballistic missile program. The MFCR is an active phased array radar and complements the Long Range Tracking Radar, for intercepting ballistic missiles. The MFCR will also serve as the fire control radar for the AAD second tier missile system of the ABM program. The AAD has a supplementary role against aircraft as well, and is to engage missiles and aircraft up to an altitude of 30 km. The MFCR will fill out the final part of the DRDO's radar development spectrum, and allow India to manufacture long range 3D radars that can act as the nodes of an Air Defence Ground Environment system
















Supercomputing: DRDO's ANURAG developed the PACE+ Supercomputer for strategic purposes for supporting its various programs. The initial version, as detailed in 1995, had the following specifications: The system delivered a sustained performance of more than 960 Mflops (million floating operations per second) for computational fluid dynamics programs for use in aircraft projects such as the Light Combat Aircraft. Pace-Plus included 32 advanced computing nodes, each with 64 megabytes(MB) of memory that can be expanded up to 256MB and a powerful front-end processor which is a hyperSPARC with a speed of 66/90/100 megahertz (MHz). Besides fluid dynamics, these high-speed computer systems were used in areas such as vision, medical imaging, signal processing, molecular modeling, neural networks and finite element analysis. Pace-Plus was stated to be available in three versions: eight nodes with 240 Mflops sustained speed; 16 nodes with 480 Mflops sustained speed; and 32 nodes with 960 Mflops sustained speed. The product comes with a number of tools for software development. Eleven PACE systems have been installed in various institutions throughout the country, apart from the ones with the DRDO. The latest variant of the PACE series was the PACE ++, a 128 node parallel processing system. With a front-end processor, it has a distributed memory and message passing system. It runs on the Linux operating system with the programming environment called ANUPAM (ANURAGs parallel applications manager). By 2004, under Project Chitra, the DRDO was implementing a system with a computational speed of 2-3 Teraflops utilizing Commercial off the shelf components and the Open Source Linux Operating System.[35]
Processors and other critical items: DRDO has developed a range of processors and application specific integrated circuits for its critical projects. Many of these systems are modular, in the sense that they can be reused across different projects. These include "Pythagoras processor" to convert cartesian to polar coordinates, ANUCO, a floating point coprocessor and several others, including the ANUPAMA 32-bit processor, which is being used in several DRDO projects. ANUPAMA has also been used for a Single Board computer, designed in cooperation with a private firm.[36]
Electronic components: One of the most marked endeavours undertaken by the DRDO has been to create a substantial local design and development capability within India, both in the private and public sectors. This policy has led to several hard to obtain or otherwise denied items, being designed and manufactured in India. These include components such as radar subsystems (product specific travelling wave tubes) to components necessary for electronic warfare and other cutting edge projects. Today, there are a range of firms across India, which design and manufacture key components for DRDO, allowing it to source locally for quite a substantial chunk of its procurement. The DRDO has also endeavoured to use COTS (Commercial off the shelf) processors and technology, and follow Open Architecture standards, wherever possible, in order to pre-empt obsolescence issues and follow industry practise. One significant example is the development of an Open Architecture computer for the Light Combat Aircraft, based on the PowerPC architecture and VME64 standard. The earlier Mission computer utilizing Intel 486 DX chips has already seen success, with variants being present on the Su-30 MKI, Jaguar and MiG-27 Upgrades for the Indian Air Force.[37]
New anti-tank ammunition, fin stabilized armour piercing discarding sabot (FSAPDS), Mks. 1 and 2 for the 125 mm calibre, meant for India's T-72 tanks. The DRDO also developed 120 mm FSAPDS and HESH rounds for the Arjun tank, and 105 mm FSAPDS rounds for the Army's Vijayanta and T-55 tanks.[29]
Ammunition manufacture: Significant amounts of 125 mm anti-tank rounds manufactured by the Ordnance Factory Board were rejected. The majority of these rounds belonged to a "hybrid" batch of 125 mm FSAPDS. The OFB had entered into an agreement with Russian manufacturers wherein it sought to combine Russian supplied penetrators with Indian charges. The rounds were found to have extremely poor accuracy and on occasion even blew up inside the tank. The problems were traced to improper packaging of the charges by the OFB, leading to propellant leakage during storage at high temperatures. The entire issue dismayed the DRDO since a proven design cleared after extensive trials, came into controversy on account of poor manufacturing by the OFB and storage issues. The locally developed rounds were rectified, and requalified, whereas the hybrid rounds were scrapped. Production of these local rounds was then restarted after technical audit. Since 2001, over 1,30,000 rounds have been manufactured by the OFB. In 2005, DRDO noted that it had developed a Mk2 version of the 125 mm round, with higher power propellant for greater penetration. In parallel, in 2006, OFB announced that it was also manufacturing 125 mm IMI (Israel Military Industries) rounds for which an agreement had been signed before the development of the local Mk2. It is believed that this might assist in improving the OFB's APFSDS manufacturing capability. These rounds and presumably the Mk2 round, will be used by both the T-72 and T-90 formations in the Indian Army after the requisite trials.[38][39






The Armoured Engineering Reconnaissance Vehicle for enabling the combat engineers to acquire and record terrain survey data. The instruments mounted on the amphibious vehicle viz. BMP-II are capable of measuring width of obstacle, bed profile, water depth and bearing capacity of soil of the obstacle in real time which are helpful in taking decisions regarding laying of tracks or building of bridges.[43]
Armoured Amphibious Dozer with amphibious capability developed jointly with VRDE, a sister DRDO Establishment for earth moving operations in different terrain for preparation of bridging sites, clearing obstacles and debris and to fill craters. Self-recovery of the vehicle is also a built-in feature using a rocket-propelled anchor.[44]
Carrier Mortar Tracked: Designed to mount and fire an 81 mm mortar from within vehicle. Capacity to fire from 40° to 85° and traverse 24° on either side; 108 rounds of mortar ammunition stowed. Currently in production at the Ordnance Factory Board, India.[45]
Armoured Ambulance based on the BMP-2 vehicle. The Indian Army has placed an indent on Ordnance Factory, Medak for manufacturing 50 of them.
NBC Reconnaissance Vehicle: Based on a standard weaponised BMP-2, this variant has instrumentation for determining NBC contamination, as well as bringing back samples. The vehicle includes a plow for scooping up soil samples, to instrumentation such as a radiation dosimeter amongst other key items. With India's regional rival Pakistan, having a doctrine of first use of nuclear weapons, the Indian Army is beefing up its NBC preparedness many times over.
Bridge Layer Tank: Noted by DRDO to be the amongst the best bridging systems available on a medium class tank. It has an option to carry a 20 m or a 22 m class 70 MLC bridge, which can be negotiated by all tanks in service with Indian Army, including MBT Arjun. User trial completed during 1996. Twelve numbers of BLT T-72 are under production at HVF, Avadi, Chennai.
A 42 tonne mammoth, the Amphibious Floating Bridge and Ferry System (AFFS), intended for transporting heavy armour, troops and engineering equipment across large and deep water obstacles. The 10 m x 3.6 m x 4 m vehicle can covert to a fully decked bridge configuration of length 28.4 metres, in 9 minutes. Two more vehicles can be joined in tandem to form a floating bridge of length 105 m, in 30 minutes. The bridge superstructure is integrated with floats (shown inflated) to provide stability and additional buoyancy. The vehicle has a max speed of 55 km/h on road, 40 km/h cross country and an aquatic mobility of 2.7 m/s with twin pump jets. The vehicle is also capable of retracting its wheels for use as a grounded bridge/ramp for high banks. The AFFS was developed in a record time of 34 months.[46]
Bridge Layer Tank- Arjun: Derived from the experience on the BLT-72, the BLT-Arjun is an all-new design with a scissor type bridge laying method, which helps it avoid detection from afar. It uses the chassis of the Arjun tank and can take higher weights than the BLT-72.[47]
Sarvatra Bridge layer: As the Bharat Rakshak Monitor notes: "The bridge can be over a water and land obstacles to provide 75 meters of bridge-length for battle tanks, supply convoys and troops. The system consists of a light aluminum alloy scissors bridge and was approved for production in March 2000 after 200 tank crossing trials. One complete set of the multi span mobile bridging system includes five truck-mounted units with a bridge-span of 15 meters each. The system is designed to take the weight of the Arjun, by far the heaviest vehicle in the Army’s inventory. According to the Sarvatra Project Director Dr P.K. Venkatachalam, a microprocessor based control system reduces the number of personnel required to deploy and operationalize the bridge. The Sarvatra project was sanctioned in 1994 and completed development in October 1999 at a total cost of Rs 230 million. The bridging equipment is carried on a Tatra Kolos chassis and the system is built by Bharat Earth Movers Ltd (BEML) at their Mysore complex. Exercise Sangharsh scheduled for the first half of the year will see the first deployment of the system. DRDO is developing a newer version of the Sarvatra with 20 meter long spans."[48]
Mobile Decontamination System: With the NBC aspect on the Indo-Pak battlefield in the Army's mind, the DRDO developed a Tatra vehicle based Mobile Decontamination system, for decontamination of personnel, clothing, equipment, vehicles & terrain during war. The main sub-systems of mobile decontamination system are: pre-wash, chemical wash and post wash systems respectively. The pre-wash system consists of a 3000 litre stainless steel water tank and a fast suction pump. A high-pressure jet with a capacity of 3400 litre per hour (l/h) at 45-50 bar (4.5–5 MPa) and a low-pressure jet with a capacity of 900 l/h at 5 to 6 bar (500–600 kPa) and 1600 l/h at 10 to 15 bar (1–1.5 MPa) are also included. The chemical wash system is capable of mixing two powders and two liquids with variable feed rates and has a 5 litre per minute slurry emulsion flow rate. The post wash system consists of a high-pressure hot water jet, a hot water shower for personnel and provision of steam for decontamination of clothing. The subsystem can be simultaneously operated. The decontamination systems are in regular production and have already been introduced into the services. [30] The system is under production for the Army at DRDO's partnering firms, with the DRDO itself manufacturing the pilot batch.[49]
Abhay IFV: India's own IFV design currently in prototype form. Named the "Abhay" (Fearless), this IFV will have a 40 mm gun based on the proven Bofors L70 (Armour piercing and explosive rounds), a Firecontrol system derived from the Arjun project with a Thermal imager, all-electric turret and gun stabilization, a locally designed FLAME launcher for locally manufactured Konkurs-M anti-tank missiles, and an Indian diesel engine. The armour will be lightweight composite, derived from the experience with the Kanchan project on the Arjun.
Tank-Ex, a project to mount Arjun's turret on a T-72 chassis to combine high firepower with a low silhouette. Currently in trials, to be offered to the Army once trials are complete. This is a DRDO initiative and not per a specific Army demand. However, the Army is trialling Tank-ex prototypes and the type may be used to upgrade a few hundred T-72's out of Indias vast fleet of the same.
Armoured vehicle for Paramilitary forces, Called ASHV (horse) the AVP, currently a prototype. A wheeled armoured vehicle, the AVP was displayed at Defexpo-2006, an industry trade fair held in New Delhi in 2006. The AVP has armoured glass windows and firing ports, as well as provision for heavier caliber small arms, and crowd control equipment.
Mining and De-mining equipment: The Self Propelled Mine Burrier has been developed by the DRDO against a requirement projected by the Indian Army, its an automated mine laying system developed on a high mobility vehicle and is currently in trials. The Counter-Mine flail, is a vehicle built upon the T-72 chassis, and has a series of fast moving flails to destroy mines. A prototype has been displayed, with the program run per Army requirements.
Remotely Operated Vehicle: This tracked robotic vehicle with staircase climbing ability has completed technical trials and is particularly intended for remote explosion of Explosive devices. The Indian Army and paramilitaries are very interested in this system. The ROV is carried in a specially designed carrier vehicle with additional armament and firing ports. The ROV itself is fairly sophisticated, with provision to carry various optronic payloads, an articulated gripper to pick up objects, an ability to traverse difficult terrain including staircases, as well as an integral waterjet projector to blow up explosive packages. In December 2006, the Indian MOD stated that User Assisted Technical Trials with Army involvement had been completed, and that user trials were ikely to be conducted shortly thereafter. After the ROV proved itself in user trials, it would be inducted by the Indian Army for Explosives handling and defusing.[50]
Sonars
DRDO, BEL and the Indian Navy have developed and productionized a range of Sonars and related systems for the Navy's frontline combat ships. These include the APSOH (Advanced Panoramic SOnar Hull mounted), HUMVAD (Hull Mounted Variable Depth sonar) and the HUMSA (follow on to the APSOH series; the acronym HUMSA stands for Hull Mounted Sonar Array) sonars, Nagan Towed Array Sonar, Panchendriya Submarine sonar and fire control system, sonobuoy Tadpole and its airborne signal processor Simhika. Other sonars such as the airborne sonar Mihir, are in trials, whilst work is proceeding apace on "New Generation" sonars. Sonars may be considered one of DRDO's most successful achievements, with the work begun under the leadership of a young Naval officer decades back. Today, the Indian Navy's most powerful ships rely on Indian made sonars. The standard fit for a frontline Naval ship would include the HUMSA-NG (New Generation) hull mounted sonar, a HUMVAD variable depth sonar and the Nagan towed array sonar. The Mihir, is a dunking sonar meant for use by the Naval ALH, working in conjunction with its Tadpole sonobuoy. The Panchendriya is in production for the Kilo class submarine upgrades. Some ships, such as the INS Beas field a mix of local (HUMSA and HUMVAD) and imported sonars (towed array), till the local towed array was developed. The Delhi class destroyer has the HUMSA and the HUMVAD.[51][52][53]

Torpedoes
DRDO is currently engaged in developing multiple Torpedo designs. These include a lightweight torpedo (Advanced Experimental Torpedo) that has been accepted by the Navy and cleared for production (initial reports of it being unsuccessful proved to be speculative and false [31]). Other projects include the heavy weight wire-guided torpedo Varunastra and the Thakshak thermal torpedo suitable for use against both ships and submarines. The electrically powered Varunastra is now stated to be also in production. The DRDO with the help of Larsen & Toubro, India also developed and productionized a microprocessor controlled Triple tube torpedo launcher for the Indian Navy's ships as well as Towed torpedo decoy (TOTED).[54][55]

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[KENT]

Seems to me you are too old to grow up quickly..

offcourse, growing up takes lots of time, but your level of thinking and coverage of knowledge is beyond any degree of growing up.

 

[KENT]

Can't read futuristic ... Seems not much done in self relibility field by India, Keeps on buying and Buying ...

Only Major Equipment

ARMY --- Tanks --- NONE
AIRFORCE --- JETS ----NONE

This is what your 30% is....

NAVY-----FRIGATES -- DESTROYERS---- Kit assembled = 30%

Army Tanks - 124 Arjun ordered sometimes back

Airforce Jets - 20 pre-production tejas followed by 37 more.

Go and dig some all other creative way of harping about LCA and Arjun

 

[Proud to be Pakistani]

Army Tanks - 124 Arjun ordered sometimes back

Airforce Jets - 20 pre-production tejas followed by 37 more.

Go and dig some all other creative way of harping about LCA and Arjun

124 Arjuns ordered ------- How many delivered ... please provide a link.

Do speak about pre-production stuff ---- Production line Tejas in Airforce are none .... Please provide link if they are in service