Bengaluru and Pune to supply indigenously designed defence products
Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has signed two contracts on 31 Dec 2020 to supply 10 Lynx U2 Fire Control systems and Laser Dazzler to the Defence Ministry and the Navy under the buy Indian category.
It signed the Rs.1,355 crore contract with the Defence Ministry to supply Lynx U2 for frontline warships of Indian Navy.
The LYNX U2 GFCS, designed and developed indigenously, is a Naval Gun Fire Control System designed to acquire, track and engage targets amidst sea clutter. It is capable of accurately tracking air/surface targets, generating required target data for predicting weapon aiming points and engaging target. The target engagement is carried out with the medium/short range gun mounts like Russian AK176, A190 and AK630 and the SRGM available onboard ships.
The Gun Fire Control System has been designed with an open and scalable architecture permitting simple and flexible implementation in many different configurations.
The system has been developed and delivered to Indian Navy and has been in service for over two decades, satisfactorily meeting the tactical requirements of Indian Naval ships of various classes like destroyers, frigates, missile boats, corvettes, etc.
The system has been upgraded continuously and indigenisation has been the major focus along with technology upgrades. The indigenous content of the system has been continuously increased, generation to generation to eliminate the dependency on foreign OEMs.
The system will be installed on the NOPV, Talwar and Teg class of ships. The system including the Tracking Radar, Servo and Weapon Control Modules has been completely designed and developed by BEL. The indigenous system will ensure maximum up-time of the system and guarantees excellent Product support throughout its lifetime.
The system proposed in the contract is of the fourth generation and is a completely indigenised system to be delivered by BEL from Bengaluru factory over the next five years.
BEL’s second contract with the Indian Navy for Initial supply of 20 indigenously developed
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation Dazzlers (Laser Dazzlers).
BEL had earlier this month won the contract beating global Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in buy global category. These would be manufactured by BEL at Pune plant.
The Laser Dazzler is used as a non-lethal method for warning and stopping suspicious vehicles, boats, aircraft, UAVs pirates etc. from approaching secured areas during both day and night.
It is capable of dazzle and thereby suppress the person’s, optical sensor’s action with disability glare in case of non-compliance to orders. It disorients, confuses and blinds a person temporarily. It also dazzles and distracts aircraft/UAVs.
It is a portable, shoulder operated and ruggedized for military use in adverse environmental conditions. Laser dazzler technology was developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
This unique product is indigenously designed and developed for the first time for the Armed Forces. #manufacturing #contracts #makeinIndia /fiinews.com
