Precision Guided Munitions Event Generates Interest in India

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Precision Guided Munitions Event Generates Interest in India | PRLog

Precision Attack & Guidance conference & exhibition is being organised in New Delhi on 11-12 July 2013. The conference will address the requirement of precision guided munitions for the Indian armed forces, their role in modern warfare, technological advances and design & manufacturing challenges.

The event is being organised by the Centre for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS), a think tank funded by the Ministry of Defence and IMR Media, publishers of Indian Military Review magazine.

Among the senior officers of the armed forces, who are slated to address the delegates are Lt Gen Anil Chait, Chief of Integrated Staff, Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, Chief of the Indian Air Force, Air Marshal M Matheswaran, Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (Perspective Planning & Force Development) and a number of other eminent speakers.

Saab Technologies, Rafael Advanced Defence Systems and MBDA have sponsored the event.

The event will be held at the Manekshaw Centre, a newly opened convention centre of the army situated in the army cantonment in New Delhi.

The PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry are the official partners. The event is approved by the India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO).

The conference is free to attend for serving officers of the armed forces, ministries of defence, home and external affairs, paramilitary forces and police.

 

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Emphasis on artillery launched guided shells.

 

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Emphasis on artillery launched guided shells.

When I read the titel I though so too, but then I wondered why Air Chief Browne participated and searched for more infos:

Precision Attack & Targeting India 2013

Indian capabilities in precision attack and targeting are restricted to laser-guided bomb (LGB) kits attached to dumb bombs. The Astra beyond visual range (BVR) missile has long been under development. The Kargil conflict showed in 1999 that the Indian armed forces urgently required these capabilities in large numbers.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) is upgrading a large number of unguided bombs to this standard based on excellent results. Several IAF bombers like Mig-27, SEPECAT Jaguar, Su-30MKI, Mirage-2000 and MiG-29 could carry the LGBs for the air-to ground attack tasks. The Indian Navy has a large requirement for firing precision weapons from on-board launchers.

Short range close combat missiles either derived from the indigenous Astra or imported are likely to be standardised across all IAF aircraft fleets in the next ten years.

For precision attack, the Helina (an air launched variant of the Nag anti-tank missile) with an imaging infra red (IIR) seeker backed by an upgraded variant of the currently available algorithm able to discriminate targets including moving targets even in heavy clutter, should be the standard fit across all types of IAF aircraft.

Indigenous Precision Guided Munitions (PGMs) with satellite navigation-laser designation/terrain matching/optical hybrid guidance systems developed indigenously should become available in the five to ten year period given that work on such weapons is being pursued, albeit at a slow pace, because these fall under unfunded private research at a few DRDO laboratories in the absence of firm IAF orders and sanction to develop such weapons.

Artillery. Less than 1% of India’s artillery munition stockpile is precision guided. After India’s decisive victory in Kargil 1999 the artillery has decided to exploit the superiority of trajectory correctable munitions and terminally-guided munitions. It is working to improve precision-guided munitions from the current negligible levels to 20 per cent of total available ammunition.

Anti-tank. While the Army is buying a few hundred DRDO-developed Nag fire-and-forget anti-tank missiles, it is still looking for better anti-tank missiles to make up the shortfall of 44,000 missiles through transfer of technology.

IMR