ACIG Special Reports
INDIAN EXHIBITORS - IV
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A 'Printed' Microstrip Antenna Array and low power (500 W) L-Band T/R Modules developed by DRDO. The former finds use in the man-portable Battlefield Surveillance Radar (BFSR) as well as on airborne surveillance radars. DRDO has also developed a 4x16 element active phased array radar for experimental purposes, as the first step.
Cutaway of the Advanced Light Weight Torpedo (ALWT) developed by DRDO for both ship-borne and air-borne carriage. It can attack targets at a depth of 540 m, has a maximum speed of 33 knots and has a dynamic frontal sealing system for noise reduction and higher reliability.?
This 42 tonne mammoth is an Amphibious Floating Bridge and Ferry System (AFFS) developed by the R&DE; (Engrs) branch of DRDO, for the ferry of traffic across large and deep water obstacles. The 10 x 3.6 x 4 m vehicle can covert to a fully decked bridge configuration of length 28.4 m, 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/sec with twin pump jets. The vehicle is also capable of retracting it's wheels for use as a grounded bridge/ramp for high banks.
Polish WZT3 Armoured Recovery Vehicle (ARV) assembled by Bharat Earth Movers ltd. (BEML).
The
Sujav
is a compact EW system for the V/UHF communication range, seen installed on TATA 'Sumo' 4x4 vehicles. It can perform a fast spectral search between frequencies of 30 to 1000 MHZ with 4 channel monitoring and jam on multiple frequencies with responsive jamming being used against fixed and frequency hopping sets. Jammer power output is 500 W(VHF) / 200 W(UHF) and features decoding of standard formats and direction finding with emitter location being fixed on a map. This system has been designed by the DLRL lab of DRDO, the designers of the 'Tempest' EW system.?
A 1:8 scale model and a full size mockup of the WM-18 Naval Rocket Launcher, built by L&T.; This weapon system is for use aboard Landing Ship Tank (LST) warships to facilitate beach clearing operations. The whole system comprises of port and starboard launchers capable of firing 18 rockets in single launch or salvo mode. The electro-hydraulically operated launchers are slaved to a Director designation sight and controlled from a remote console. A two axis servo stabilized system compensates for ship roll and pitch motion.?
L&T; and DRDO have co-developed this "Universal Missile Launcher", configured on a wheeled vehicle and designed to launch SAMs in vertical or inclined launch modes. It features an all-electrical 28 V DC system, complete silent mode of operation, auto levelling, advanced electronic controls and an advanced user console and GUI.
Kora
class missile corvette designed and manufactured by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Ltd. of Calcutta. The small 1,350 tonne corvette packs a massive surface to surface punch with 16 Zvezda 3M24E Uran AsHMs. Currently, these corvettes carry MATCH (Multi Role Anti Submarine Torpedo Carrying Helicopter) Chetak helicopters for the ASW role but are soon to be equipped with the naval Dhruv helicopter which will replace the former. Naval Dhruvs will carry the DRDO (LRDE) SV-2000 Maritime patrol radar.
Brahmaputra
class FFG, designed and manufactured by GRSE.
Type 209 HDW Submarine built by Mazagon Docks Ltd. (MDL).
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