Bengaluru: Army, under emergency procurement power, has signed a contract for more than 100 explosive drones to be used as forced multipliers in missions such as Balakot.
To be produced in Bengaluru, the drone will have a range of about 100 km, report Chethan Kumar.
The requirements for the so-called Army “Munitioning Munition” will be filled with ‘Skystriker’ drones that will be made and supplied by the Alpha design company headquartered in Bengaluru in a joint venture with the Elbit Israel security system.
The contract signed on Wednesday is worth around Rs 100 Crore.
According to the Elbit Systems website, Skystriker is a wave of cost-effective ammunition that is able to carry out a long-term tactical strike.
Bags CO 2 orders for radar, the drone identification system improves performance, situational awareness and surviving ability by providing direct air precision capabilities to the troops of maneuvers and special forces.
‘Suicide Drone’ like some describes it – because it crashes to the target with explosives – is an autonomous system that can find, obtain and attack the operating target operated with 5kg warheads on the aircraft.
The electrical propulsion offers minimal acoustic signatures, allowing confidential operations at low altitude, making it a silent attacker, invisible and surprise.
Col (retd) HS Shankar, cmd from Alpha’s design, told toi: “location details (GPS) will be loaded into the drone before it was launched.
After it was launched, it will float around the area, take the target, deliver information back to land control equipment and Attack only after getting permission.
Land control can change the target after launch, and even call it back if a mission must be canceled.
“Alpha-Elbit JV has exported around 100 drones – produced based on elbit technology – and has orders for other 100 export.
Alpha has 51% in JV.
2 More defense contracts from the Army contract for JV, Alpha design has independently pocketed two defense contracts from the Indian Air Force in the past week.
The first is for six very high frequency radars.
The IAF already has a remote surveillance radar – Radar P18 – which can capture targets outside of 200km obtained in the 1980s and 1990s.
Given their age, the IAF is looking at whether it must update P18 or buy a new one at the same cost and decide to buy instead.
Under the power of emergency procurement, the IAF issued Eois and RFP who received responses from four companies: Defense PSU Bel and three private companies – Alfa design, microwave pattern and Astra data.
While the four companies meet the technical requirements, Alpha emerged as the lowest bidder and pocketed the 200 Crore RS contract signed last week.
The second, also the IAF contract, is for around 60 Identification of the OR-FOE (IFF) friend system that will be integrated with soil radar.
This technology was developed by the Center for Airborne Systems (CABS) under DrDO and transferred to three companies: Alpha, bell and data pattern.
Everything has built a prototype approved by the authorities concerned but Alpha emerged as the lowest bidder to accommodate a crore rs contract, which was signed on Sunday.
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