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The Hindu : Business : BEL to support defence establishments

BEL to support defence establishments

Special Correspondent

To set up new unit at Kinfra Hitech Industrial Park, Kalamassery

KOCHI: Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), one of the leading Public Sector Undertaking, is planning to set up a new unit at the Kinfra Hitech Industrial Park, Kalamassery. The foundation stone of the new unit will be laid on November 26 by Union Defence Minister A.K. Antony. Defence continues to be BEL’s prime focus but the company has also diversified into civilian areas. Some of the successful civilian products include the electronic voting machines, solar powered LED-based traffic signal lights, simputers and set-top boxes. BEL offers contract-manufacturing services for both domestic and international customers. It has automated assembly, inspection and testing facilities as also precision machining capabilities. It adheres to strict process and manufacturing standards, thus producing world-class products. BEL has its corporate office at Bangalore and manufacturing units at nine locations in India. A network of marketing and customer support centres across India completes the vertically integrated company profile.

BEL felt the need to open a product support centre at Kochi in order to address the product support activities for the Indian Navy, National Physical & Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL) of DRDO, Kochi Shipyard and BEL’s outsourcing partner, Keltron. BEL interacted with Kinfra (Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation), a statutory body of the Government of Kerala, and they have provided 6.2 acres of land to BEL in the Hi-tech Park being developed by Kinfra at Kalamassery, Kochi, on lease for 90 years.

Positioning the support centre near Kochi will enable BEL to provide good product support to the Indian Navy for the platforms coming under the Southern Naval Command. A long-term plan will be worked out to ensure waterfront support activities.

BEL and NPOL have been collaborating successfully in the field of Underwater Systems for the past three decades. Approaches like concurrent engineering have been adopted in the past to reduce the cycle time of induction by the Indian Navy. Establishing a support centre at Kochi by BEL will further facilitate achieving the ambitious targets for the indigenous sonar programmes.

The Indian Navy is planning to build an indigenous aircraft carrier at the Kochi Shipyard by 2014. BEL proposes to supply radars, communication systems, electronic warfare systems, fire control systems and combat management systems for the same.

 

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good read:

http://www.csio.res.in/CSIO-AR07-08...B5B7E84=0&bcsi_scan_filename=CSIO-AR07-08.pdf

 

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South India's Best-News,Cinema,Fashion,Music,Food device to trace the trapped under debris

A device to trace the trapped under debris

KOCHI: Tracking of persons caught under the debris caused by earthquake, building collapse or a landslide could be faster as a device for this will be in the hands of the`first-to-respond’ agencies during disasters, thanks to the Sanjeevani, the device developed by the DRDO’s Naval Systems Laboratory, NPOL.

While the DRDO lab developed the technology to detect submarines using sonars, the Sanjeevani is an acoustic device to track trapped human beings under the debris in natural disasters.

The Defence Research and Development Organisation on Monday handed over two Sanjeevanis to N V C Menon, National Disaster Management Agency and to M Beena, District Collector, at a function organised at the NPOL.

Incidentally, Keltron will be the production agency for Sanjeevani on a largescale.

The Sanjeevani, a spinoff product of sonar technology, being used to detect underwater submarines will help track victims caught under the debris.

“This is our societal mission,” said A Sivathanu Pillai, an enthusiast and supporter of the defence spin-off technology.

Recalling his days with former President A P J Abdul Kalam when the first seeds of the spin-off technology were sown from the Agni missile programme, Sivathanu Pillai said that it was Kalam’s forward thinking that led to the development of several such products.

 

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Threads megerd, no need to create multiple threads on same topic.
Btw, how are these pictures related to army?

 

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Astra Microwave to supply INR 570 mn worth wireless sub-systems to ELTA for IAF

Astra Microwave Products Ltd, India’s leading provider of microwave wireless technologies used in defense, space, and telecommunications, today announced that the company has won an order worth INR 570 million (USD 11.5 million) from Israel’s ELTA Systems Ltd.

The order is for the supply of microwave wireless sub-systems for Indian Air Force Phalcon AWACS program. The contract is effective between November 2008 and mid-2010.

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Chinese Army team arrives in Belgaum for joint exercise

Chinese Army team arrives in Belgaum for joint exercise

New Delhi, Dec 04: Continuing its efforts to enhance defence cooperation with China, India will host a 147-member Chinese Army contingent in Belgaum beginning Saturday for a fortnight-long military exercise.

The Chinese team arrived in Belgaum this morning to participate in the second edition of the 'Hand-in-Hand' joint Army exercise, Army sources said.

The military exercise is in continuation of the ongoing Army-to-Army cooperation between the two neighbours as part of the annual defence dialogue, which commenced in 2006.

Soon after landing in Pune, the Chinese men and stores were transported to Belgaum in six Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft, sources said.

A high-ranking PLA delegation as well as senior Indian Army officers are expected to visit the exercise venue as 'observers' to view the proceedings of the joint training exercise, they said.

During the exercise, Chinese troops from the 1st Company of Infantry Battalion of Chengdu Military Area Command and the Indian Army troops from 8 Maratha Light Infantry Battalion will undergo joint tactical manoeuvres and drills; interoperability training; and joint command post procedures, finally culminating in a joint counter-terrorist operational exercise with simulated enemy.

The exercise is planned at mixed company group-level with command and control elements from the respective battalions' headquarters.

Bureau Report

 

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http://nightwatch.afcea.org/NightWatch_20081209.htm

After the 2002 crises, India adopted a new strategic doctrine. It is built around maintaining a core attack force in all three services at a level of constant combat readiness that is much higher than the rest of the armed forces. Thus, analysts monitoring conventional war indicators will be prone to miss the tell tale indicators of “integrated battle groups” already at high combat readiness in peacetime making final preparations for limited attacks.

Comment: When NightWatch first began studying Indian civil and military war preparations in 1971, the Indian Army required 8 months to mobilize men from the civilian sector; recall reserves; move logistics; generate, train and prepare the forces; bring them to full combat readiness and move 750,000 soldiers in 25 to 28 divisions with about 2,000 tanks to attack positions in western India,

In late 1986, during Operation Brass Tacks, India shortened that preparation process, but it was still considerable. By the time of the Kargil War in early 1999, the Army reduced the time to attain full combat readiness in battle positions to 45 days.

By the January 2002 crisis, the Indian Army had reduced the time to one month, with 750,000 men and some 4,000 tanks in battle positions and capable of attacking after three weeks of preparations. Full combat readiness was reached in the fourth week. In June 2002, the Army also showed it can maintain that large force in the field at a high state of readiness for up to six months, summer or winter. No other Army has achieved those results for a force that size.

Since 2004, India has adopted the Cold Start Doctrine, which has a long history in Soviet strategic military writings, more so than in the West. It emerged from Soviet leadership distrust in the reliability and precision of intelligence warning of a NATO attack. It was a safeguard against warning failure and surprise attack. However, it was never clear whether the Soviets achieved the ability to launch a nuclear attack from a cold start.

The Indians have taken the doctrine in an all-arms direction, which logically would include nuclear strikes by all three services because all of them have some nuclear weapons delivery capability. The record of Indian achievement in reducing the time to prepare the armed forces for conventional war is such that prudence commends a working hypothesis that they will do what they say they can do, as to cold start.

 

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Army wants land for Dooars airstrip-Kolkata -Cities-The Times of India

Army wants land for Dooars airstrip
11 Dec 2008, 0439 hrs IST, TNN


KOLKATA: Negotiations are on with the state government for acquisition of land to set up an airstrip in North Bengal, which the army needs close to the Sino-Indian border, Eastern Command Major General General Staff (MGGS) Munish Sibal said at a news conference in Kolkata on Wednesday. "Talks are in progress with the government," he said.

The army needed the airstrip somewhere in the Dooars to launch unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance of the international border. While some land was already available with the army at the spot, some more would have to be acquired, Sibal said. In the absence of a suitable launching pad, the UAVs were currently being launched from airports that were also used for civilian purposes, but this was facing difficulties.

A lot of defence land is available in North Bengal. There is one view in the army that the airstrip can be set up on any of these, without further acquisition. But Sibal said these were not suitable for setting up an airstrip that would meet the requirement. "We need an airstrip close to the international border. The further away the border is from the launching pad, the lesser payload the UAV will be able to carry. It may not even be able to reach the border," he said.

The use of UAVs has been going up for surveillance, to carry out the task without risking casualties. UAVs have become a handy tool in keeping a watch on incidents of transgression along the border in Sikkim by Chinese troops. Sibal said UAVs were also being used in Manipur to monitor the activities of militant groups.

He said there was nothing to fear from the latest Chinese assertion that the whole of Arunachal Pradesh was a disputed territory. "Our defences are in place," Sibal said. In Arunachal, an east-west highway was being constructed, which would be connected with various points on the line of actual control.

In the wake of the serial blasts in Assam on October 30, the ceasefire ground rules with the National Democratic Front of Boroland were being tightened, he added. "Some infringements are taking place," Sibal admitted. While the Assam Police have blamed NDFB for the blasts, he said it was still to be ascertained who masterminded the blasts.

 

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Infantry: Lighter, Stronger And Safer

Lighter, Stronger And Safer

November 25, 2008: The U.S. Department of Defense is under pressure by infantry officers to replace existing body armor with new models using a new, lighter and stronger fabric. In the last seven years, the Department of Defense has spent nearly half a billion dollars on new Protective Vests ("flak jackets"). That large a market has spurred development of new body armor technologies. This created a situation best described by the term, "disruptive technologies." All of them, unfortunately, were heavier, and many of the troops protested the weight of the new protective vests. Running up hills in Afghanistan, or through the intense heat of Iraq, is a lot more difficult when wearing any kind of protective vest, and the troops often leave some, or all, of the body armor behind when a mission requires them to be faster and more nimble.

Then, two years ago, Indian firm Anjani Technoplast, came up with some innovative protective vest technologies, a new fiber (Dyneema HB26) which is 15 percent lighter, 40 percent stronger than aramid (Kevlar) fibers, floats, and is more resistant to sunlight, moisture and chemicals. Until recently it was much more expensive, but new production techniques have brought the price down. South Korea, for example, is replacing its Kevlar helmets (which are similar to U.S. models) with ones made of Dyneema HB26. These are 20 percent lighter than the Kevlar ones, and more resistant to bullets and shell fragments.

While the Department of Defense doesn't want to spend up to half a billion dollars replacing all current protective vests, if there are enough pressure from the infantry to get new, lighter and stronger models for the combat troops. Combat support personnel can use the older, heavier models, if only because they do not face the same dangers, and don't run around nearly as much. At the same time, the new Afghan and Iraqi armies need protective vests. So it may be possible to pass on the current stuff to our less-affluent allies, and get the new models for U.S. combat troops.

Meanwhile, police forces are enthusiastically adopting Dyneema HB26 body armor and helmets. It's also likely that the new generation of U.S. armored trucks (the hummer replacement) will use Dyneema HB26, which will lower fuel consumption and strain on the suspension and other vehicle components.

 

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The United States and other World organizations will be responding to requests for help. This horrible tragedy is being named as a "9-11" type of event. The terrorists have caused the loss of too many innocent lives.
We pray for those who lost family members.

 

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PIB Press Release

Navratna defence PSU Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has been conferred ‘Niryat Shree’ Certificate of Excellence for the year 2005-06 in the Residual Products – Non SSI category by the Federation of Indian Export Organisation (FIEO).

The Award was given by Shri Shankarsinh Vaghela, Minister of Textiles to Shri N K Sharma, Director (Marketing), BEL, at a function held here today.

HF communication equipment and Night Vision Devices to Suriname, Field Telephone exchange to Botswana, Satcom equipment to Nigeria and Laser Range Finders to Israel formed the major portion of BEL’s export during the year 2005-06. In addition, X-Ray tube parts and precision mechanical parts to General Electric Medical System, (GEMS), electronic components, Vacuum Interrupters and ‘build to print’ contract manufacture of Satellite receivers of the US market with the other major exports made during that year.