IIT Professors Propose 1500 Per Cent Increase In Speed Of Submarine Communi

[Echo_419]

I will believe almost anything that IITians say

 

[KRAIT]

I will believe almost anything that IITians say

Its because of the people who teaches there and work there. They are among very professional people of India.

 

[Rangila]

Its because of the people who teaches there and work there. They are among very professional people of India.

Like Arvind kejriwal. IIT Kharagpur.

 

[KRAIT]

Like Arvind kejriwal. IIT Kharagpur.

Well, if you are taking one example, kindly say what you really want to say.

 

[Rangila]

The operational VLF facility is used by the Indian Navy to communicate with its SSK fleet of Russian Kilo Class and German Type 1500, with trailing communication buoys at periscope depth of 10 to 20-metres. After the nuclear-powered ATV become operational, the VLF facility will permit Indian National Command Authority to issue launch orders to the submerged ATVs at periscope depth. VLF waves propagate to almost a quarter of the globe away and are generally immune to atmospheric disturbances caused by nuclear detonations. Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) waves on the other hand can penetrate to depths of 100-metres but a huge overland infrastructure needs to be built up with at least 80-km long antennae. In this context, as far back as 1986, researchers from the Defense Electronics Applications Laboratory, Dehra Dun, after reviewing the effects of nuclear radiation and EMP on VLF/ELF communication systems,, concluded that "ELF radio communication was the only reliable means which could withstand the effects of a nuclear holocaust and was least disturbed by the EMP generated by nuclear explosion". Subsequently classified research and development in these areas was carried out by National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) Madras and Bangalore, and Defense Electronics Applications Laboratory, Dehra Dun –– although the system in principle relies on fixed terrestrial infrastructure and thus was vulnerable to enemy strikes.



However on the negative side, the small bandwidth of VLF transmission limits the rate of transmission of data, usually allowing only the operation of slow Teletype messages. Moreover the large terrestrial and static VLF/ELF facility would be vulnerable to enemy strikes as even if the facilities are shifted deep underground in “hardened” shelters, the vital and critical communication antennae would have to be located above ground and would remain vulnerable.


Thus Indian Navy is left with no other option but to develop, ideally with United States assistance, an airborne VLF transmitter similar to the United States Navy (USN) “Take Charge & Move Out” (TACAMO) to ensure survivability of its VLF facility and thus retaining the critical sub-surface nuclear-punch. For TACAMO missions the USN initially utilised the EC-130A/Q Hercules platforms with a powerful 200-KW transmitter providing the VLF transmissions through a 10-km long trailing wire antennae with a drogue parachute at the end. During transmission the aircraft maintained a flight-profile in a continuous tight circle, which resulted in over 70-percent of the wire hanging straight down and acting as a relatively efficient vertical antenna.


The undisputed lead of United States in the area of VLF TACAMO technology is forcefully represented by the present Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) hardened E-6 Mercury airborne platform of the United States TACAMO Communications System providing survivable communication links between the United States NCA and Strategic Forces. A derivative of the classic commercial Boeing 707, in-flight refueling facility ensures E-6 mission ranges of over 6000-nautical miles and endurance of up to 72-hours, thanks to four economical CFM-56-2A-2 high bypass ratio fan/jet engines with thrust reversers.


A further enhancement in the form of E-6B fulfils both TACAMO and Airborne National Command Post (ABNCP) missions by incorporating a subset of United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOMM) EC-135 ABNCP equipment into the E-6 platform along with battle staff positions as determined by USSTRATCOMM (J36). The result is a formidable dual-mission aircraft capable of fulfilling either the E-6A mission or the airborne strategic command post mission (“Looking Glass”?) and is equipped with an Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS) capable of launching United States ICBMs. With at least a pair of E-6 always airborne the mobility and flexibility of E-6B provides a survivable Command, Control and Communications (C3) force management for the United States NCA via multiple frequency-band communications, an aspect the Indian Navy should emulate at least in principle and policy to ensure survival of its hitherto limited strategic arsenal.


Meanwhile in a series of technological breakthroughs attention has shifted to laser based underwater communications. There is an optical window in the blue-green part of the laser spectrum, which enables transmission to penetrate the ocean to substantial distances to depths of 500–700-meters. Power requirements are considerable and the system at least presently cannot be installed in artificial satellites. Thus as a tactical improvisation the laser is made ground based, preferably mobile, in perfect conjunction with a space based mirror with adaptive optics being used to produce a cohesive beam. Significantly, data transfer rate will be with “unrestricted speed” somewhat 300 times greater than ELF system. Laser communications will assume priority significance if they become capable of down-linking satellite imagery of enemy ballistic missile deployment and launch, in friendly submerged submarines to ensure assured retaliatory strike.



In India by the early 1980's work proceeded on laser communication links from the air and ground in a joint project at the Ocean Engineering Centre and the Laser Communication Laboratory, IIT Madras so that by 1985 an experimental facility for measuring the attenuating effects of the ocean surface on laser beam penetration was already in operation. It was concluded "that (hindrance by) ocean waves were not a serious drawback in a laser communication link, as long as the laser had sufficient power to penetrate the atmosphere twice and penetrate ocean water for a distance up to several hundreds meters". Measured values of attenuation coefficients, for ocean waters collected from the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, were presented in due course with the region of minimum attenuation for pure particle-free sea water, were found to be 450–500-nm.
No wonder, United States assistance in this sphere will prove to be decisive as the effective combination of nuclear submarines and underwater VLF/ELF and laser communications will make our sea based nuclear deterrent optimally effective and serve as an assured deterrence in any “emerging Nuclear Scenario”.

Well, if you are taking one example, kindly say what you really want to say.

IIT = Brilliance

 

[Captain Spark]

Guys, you can see/read complete paper in the first link i provided, but you can't DOWNLOAD it.

C'mon Engg. & Researchers get back to some work, i need the complete report of what the paper is about

Well, u know, the paper is about communicating with submarines using Very Low Frequency(3KHz - 30KHz).....

 

[Rangila]

ELF Comms Facility Coming Up

The Chief of the Naval Staff of the Indian Navy, Admiral Nirmal Verma, will tomorrow lay the foundation stone for an ELF communications station that will come up over the next three years at a site not too far from the Koodankulkam nuclear powerplant in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district. Construction of this station, coming under the ambit of the DRDO’s ATV Project Office, will be carried out by Larsen & Toubro in a turnkey basis. Expected to be commissioned by 2015, this ELF communications station, complete with nuclear-hardened underground bunkers (able to withstand pressures of 10,000 psi), will bear a close resemblance to the Russian 82Hz ZEVS facility (see: ZEVS, The russian 82 Hz ELF transmitter) located at the Kola Peninsula northwest of Murmansk. Needless to say, Russia is closely associated with the R & D for such a facility, with minimal DRDO inputs. When completed, India will be the third country after the US and Russia to host an ELF communications station


Old news but relevant here.

 

[SEAL]

What an idea sir jee.

 

[Rangila]

Well, u know, the paper is about communicating with submarines using Very Low Frequency(3KHz - 30KHz).....

Its not 3khz. It is 3hz extremely low frequency.

 

[Bratva]

If you have Internet download manager installed, you can download the paper from Defense journal website easily.

 

[Captain Spark]

Its not 3khz. It is 3hz extremely low frequency.

Did u read the OP and the paper ???

 

[Rangila]

Did u read the OP and the paper ???

Yes, but why?

 

[Captain Spark]

Yes, but why?

The research paper clearly mentions that proposed system is to work in VLF band i.e 3KHz - 30KHz....

 

[Rangila]

The research paper clearly mentions that proposed system is to work in VLF band i.e 3KHz - 30KHz....

Thats VLF, we are talking about ELF.

 

[eddieInUK]

IIT is a famous college.