DRDO’s Anusandhan starts trials
India’s premier defense research agency DRDO owned Ex Air India, Airbus A319 Anusandhan that has been transferred to the Centre for Airborne Systems facility in Bengaluru recently started familiarization sorties with new IAF crew manned by CABS officials along with rudimentary sensors and instruments. Anusandhan is the first Flying Test Bed that will be used for the Design and Developmental testing of the sensor package suit for the Netra 2.0 (AEW&C), Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition & Reconnaissance ( ISTAR), and Multi Mission Maritime Aircraft (MMMA) systems programs in the country.
Airbus A321 based Netra 2.0 (AEW&C)
will be getting an upgraded Airborne Early Warning and Control sensor package
suit. Six A321 that have been transferred from Air India to IAF will be heading
to the Airbus facility in Europe by end of this year for structural
modification before it can commence trials.
Netra 2.0 configuration has
gone through a visible change from earlier configuration as now the beyond line
of sight data links, satellite communication systems Radome have been moved
behind and now it is close to the tail section and it seems plans to have
multimode airborne Maritime surveillance Radar to act as an effective force multiplier
solution for operational missions in the maritime theater seems to have been
dropped.
New Radome incorporated in
the top forward section in the revised configuration seems to suggest that
plans to replace weather radar located in the nose cone of the aircraft with a
derivate of the Uttam AESA might have been dropped and instead, now it will be
on the top Radome that seems to suggest that Radar antenna size now will be
much bigger than originally planned if true, will have more forward tracking
and search range.
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ITBP recruits exposed to war
like field conditions at Bhanu centre
A battle inoculation
exercise for Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) recruits was conducted at the
Basic Training Centre in Bhanu near Chandigarh. The trainees were exposed to
realistic war like field conditions during the exercise. The trainees were
taught how to react and deal with stress so that they could be better prepared
to deal with combat situations.
Simulated operational
conditions were recreated where live fire, smoke and shock effect of explosives
were used during the exercise. Apart from training in weapons, firing, field
craft and drill, trainees were made to undergo battle inoculation in the last
phase of the training.
44 week training is in the
final stages at the BTC. The batch, comprising of 526 trainees, including 352
women, is scheduled to pass out from the centre in March.
Meet Param Pravega, this
supercomputer in India can perform 3.3 quadrillion operations every second
The Indian Institute of
Science in Bengaluru has commissioned one of the most powerful supercomputers
in India, which has a supercomputing capacity of 3.3 petaflops (1 petaflop
equals a quadrillion or one 1015 operations per second). Dubbed Param Pravega,
the supercomputer is the largest in an Indian academic institution.
The facility has been
designed and developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
and a majority of components used in the supercomputer have been manufactured
and assembled indigenously, along with software developed in India. The
supercomputer has been commissioned in the institution under the National
Supercomputing Mission to power diverse research and educational pursuits from
across the country.
The National Supercomputing
Mission has so far established 10 supercomputer systems across India with a
cumulative computing power of 17 petaflops. These systems have greatly helped
faculty members and students carry out major R&D activities, including
developing platforms for genomics and drug discovery, studying urban
environmental issues, establishing flood warning and prediction systems, and
optimising telecom networks.
Will ISRO rover beat NASA rover to the Moon? It
is Chandrayaan-3 vs VIPER
Chandrayaan-3 was originally
scheduled for a much earlier launch, which was delayed due to the pandemic but
this has also given ISRO the time to better prepare for the mission. Based on
the learnings from Chandrayaan-2 and suggestions made by the national level
experts, the realisation of Chandrayaan-3 is in progress. Many related hardware
and their special tests are successfully completed. The launch is scheduled for
August 2022.
In comparison, NASA is
planning to deliver VIPER to the Moon by November 2023, which gives the Indian
rover a significant head start. It might be crucial as well given the fact that
both Chandrayaan-3 and VIPER are targeting the south pole region of the Moon
and will possibly be exploring the region for any sign of water, which can be a
huge discovery.
VIPER is part of NASA’s Ames
Research Center. The mission is based on a previous NASA rover concept called
Resource Prospector, which was cancelled in 2018. The rover will be given the
task of looking for lunar resources in permanently shadowed areas in the lunar
south pole region, specifically by mapping the distribution and concentration
of water ice.
