New Delhi: After deploying about 350 artillery systems and ‘Winter’ cannons with limit while continue military confrontation with china in eastern Ladakh, army Now started acquiring different types of drones and surveillance devices To more accurately direct long range and high amounts of firepower against enemy positions.
RFPs (Request for Proposals) for indigenous procurement of 80 Mini Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), 10 Runway-Independent RPAS, 44 Upgraded Long-Range Surveillance Systems and 106 Inertial Navigation Systems will be issued within the next few days. Existing Very Large Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), such as the Israeli-origin Heron and Explorer-II, are being used by the Army Aviation Wing for strategic surveillance.
“The newer smaller RPAS, which have an operational range of 15-20-km to 60-90-km, in turn, require artillery units for tactical over-the-hill surveillance in high altitude areas. If they perform well If we do, the army will go in larger numbers,” said a source. These RPAS are different from Looting Munition or Kamikaze Drones and Autonomous Surveillance and Armed Drone Swarms (A-SADS) are also being procured by the 12-lakh strong Army, as That was reported by TOI last month.
military general General Manoj Pandey It recently said that “a significant level” of border infrastructure has been developed in the forward areas of eastern Ladakh over the past two years, including housing for 35,000 soldiers as well as garages for 450 tanks and other armored vehicles. , and 350 artillery systems and howitzers. ,
Artillery systems deployed in a 30-month standoff range from the old 105 mm field gun bofors howitzer and ‘Apgan’ Dhanush and Sharang guns for the new M-777 ultra-light howitzers and the K-9 Vajra self-propelled tracked gun. These include indigenous Pinaka Multi-Launch Rocket System As well as Smerch and Grad units of the same Russian origin.
Where artillery guns have a strike range of 30 to 40 km, rockets can go up to 90 km. “The new RPAS with day and night capability requires in-depth observation by forward monitoring posts and then direct, accurate and analyzed artillery fire. An indigenous LORROS (Long Range Reconnaissance and Observation System) has also started testing. The current Israeli Loros was inducted two decades ago.”
The new man-portable mini-RPAS, which has a total weight of 15 kg, should have a mission range of not less than 15 km and operational endurance of at least 90 minutes, the Army said. Runway-independent RPAS, in turn, must be capable of vertical take-off and landing at altitudes of 13,000 feet with an endurance of at least four hours. “With the electro-optical payload, RPAS should be ideal for a dynamic sensor-shooter linkage, mitigating fixed-wing launch and recovery challenges,” the source said.
RFPs (Request for Proposals) for indigenous procurement of 80 Mini Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), 10 Runway-Independent RPAS, 44 Upgraded Long-Range Surveillance Systems and 106 Inertial Navigation Systems will be issued within the next few days. Existing Very Large Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), such as the Israeli-origin Heron and Explorer-II, are being used by the Army Aviation Wing for strategic surveillance.
“The newer smaller RPAS, which have an operational range of 15-20-km to 60-90-km, in turn, require artillery units for tactical over-the-hill surveillance in high altitude areas. If they perform well If we do, the army will go in larger numbers,” said a source. These RPAS are different from Looting Munition or Kamikaze Drones and Autonomous Surveillance and Armed Drone Swarms (A-SADS) are also being procured by the 12-lakh strong Army, as That was reported by TOI last month.
military general General Manoj Pandey It recently said that “a significant level” of border infrastructure has been developed in the forward areas of eastern Ladakh over the past two years, including housing for 35,000 soldiers as well as garages for 450 tanks and other armored vehicles. , and 350 artillery systems and howitzers. ,
Artillery systems deployed in a 30-month standoff range from the old 105 mm field gun bofors howitzer and ‘Apgan’ Dhanush and Sharang guns for the new M-777 ultra-light howitzers and the K-9 Vajra self-propelled tracked gun. These include indigenous Pinaka Multi-Launch Rocket System As well as Smerch and Grad units of the same Russian origin.
Where artillery guns have a strike range of 30 to 40 km, rockets can go up to 90 km. “The new RPAS with day and night capability requires in-depth observation by forward monitoring posts and then direct, accurate and analyzed artillery fire. An indigenous LORROS (Long Range Reconnaissance and Observation System) has also started testing. The current Israeli Loros was inducted two decades ago.”
The new man-portable mini-RPAS, which has a total weight of 15 kg, should have a mission range of not less than 15 km and operational endurance of at least 90 minutes, the Army said. Runway-independent RPAS, in turn, must be capable of vertical take-off and landing at altitudes of 13,000 feet with an endurance of at least four hours. “With the electro-optical payload, RPAS should be ideal for a dynamic sensor-shooter linkage, mitigating fixed-wing launch and recovery challenges,” the source said.