india is going very softly on SAM, arty, armour upgrades because
threat perception is quite low and the are willing to wait until
other programmes deemed more vital is done and some domestic
progs mature enough to deliver products. Russia has offered
more advanced gear like Pantsyr and the frightening Tor but no
cigar yet. more Tunguskas maybe laid in later from surplus Russia
inventory.
money is being thrown in infantry – arms, C3I, special forces and
electronic gear EW, WLRs etc. and airforce and navy.
I guess the only threat perceived is terrorism hence focus on
infantry & C3I superiority. heres a prime example. a couple of
top “mujahids” were slain last week when satellite phone THURAYA calls were tracked down…
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From Defense News
Indian Army Receives Long-Awaited EW Program
By VIVEK RAGHUVANSHI, NEW DELHI
India’s ambitious Samyukta integrated electronic warfare (EW) program, which long delayed by U.S. sanctions imposed in 1998, finally has been turned over to the Indian Army.
Samyukta’s technology, developed by the state-owned Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), is expected to remain effective through 2020, an Army official said this week.
The Indian Army official told DefenseNews.com that the first set of 26 vehicles fitted with the indigenously developed integrated surveillance systems was handed over to the service on Jan. 19.
The government sanctioned the $125 million Samyukta project in 1995, and it was scheduled for completion by the end of 2000.
The 1998 imposition of U.S. sanctions, however, meant that India could not buy high-frequency receivers for EW jamming systems from the United States. The Samyukta program was revived in 2000, following the import of receivers from South Africa’s Denel Pty Ltd.
The Samyukta program was developed and integrated by the DRDO’s Defence Electronics Research Laboratory, Hyderabad. The hardware is manufactured by the state-owned Electronic Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), also in Hyderabad.
The program’s ECIL-made jammers have a frequency capacity from 1.5 megahertz to 500 megahertz. Its phased array radar, Rajendra, is built by state-owned Bharat Electronics Limited, Bangalore.
In addition to the Samyukta program, the Indian Army also is procuring EW jamming systems from overseas markets, exclusively for counterintelligence operations against Muslim extremists in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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