BY : Express News Service

India’s Electronic and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE), a Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) lab, is in the process of developing medium power and 150 km low level multi-function, portable radars which will work more efficiently in mountainous terrains than the existing radars, said Director S Varadarajan on Tuesday.

Synthetic aperture radars which generate photo quality images are being developed by LRDE which will be ready for testing in about two years time, he said.

These GenNext radars will be mounted on Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAV)- which is the future of defence operations.

According to Varadarajan, LRDE will develop indigenous radars which will be used to meet the country’s entire defence surveillance requirements.

The radar’s capabilities include surveillance interceptive guidance, raid assessment, target acquisition, close tracking and fire control.

Varadarajan said that LRDE has initiated development of active electronics scanning array radar for airborne applications. These radars are intended to be integrated with Tejas light combat aircraft-Mach II by 2012-13. Active electronics scanning array radars are important as they improve the surveillance and firepower of the station.