Eastern Naval Command Gets New Chief of Staff

Vice Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta, AVSM, YSM, VSM assumed the charge as

Chief of Staff, Eastern Naval Command (ENC), Visakhapatnam . Vice Admiral SN Ghormade, the outgoing Chief of Staff, has proceeded on transfer as Controller Personnel Services at Integrated Headquarters, Ministry of Defence (Navy), New Delhi. VAdm Biswajit Dasgupta is an alumnus of National Defence Academy. He was commissioned into the Indian Navy in 1985 and is a specialist in Navigation and Direction.

He has commanded four frontline ships including the missile corvettes

INS Nishank, INS Karmuk, stealth frigate INS Tabar and the aircraft carrier INS Viraat. He has held other operational, training and staff appointments such as Commander Work Up at Headquarters at Indian Naval Work up Team (Kochi),

Directing Staff at the Defence Services Staff College (Wellington), Officerin-Charge of the Navy’s Navigation and Direction School, Naval Assistant to the Chief of the Naval Staff and Fleet Operations Officer of the Western Fleet.

On promotion to Flag Rank, he was appointed as Chief Staff Officer (Operations) at Headquarters, Western Naval Command at Mumbai. During 2017-18, he held command of the prestigious Eastern Fleet at Visakhapatnam and was thereafter appointed as Additional Director General at NCC Headquarters, New Delhi. On promotion to the rank of Vice Admiral and prior to his return to Visakhapatnam as the Chief of Staff, Eastern Naval Command, he was the Controller Personnel Services at Integrated Headquarters, Ministry of Defence (Navy) at New Delhi.

VAdm Biswajit Dasgupta is a graduate of Defence Services Command and Staff College, Bangladesh, Army War College, Mhow and National Defence College,

New Delhi. The Flag Officer is a recipient of the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal and Vishisht Seva Medal for distinguished service. He was also awarded the Yudh Seva Medal for coordinating evacuation operations from strife-torn Yemen in 2015 under Operation Raahat.

IAI to Acquire the Manufacturing of Zibar, Zmag, and ZD off-Road Vehicles

Israel Aerospace will continue to manufacture significant added value to and upgrade to provide Industries (IAI) and sell the vehicles for the operational capabilities an integrated, systemic continues to diversify civilian applications. ELTA provides existing and response that includes its ground operations The vehicles are future customers. The offmobility, defense and assault with the acquisition of the manufactured entirely in road vehicles will fulfill the for the forces in the field. manufacturing of Zibar, Israel. They offer excellent operational needs of the ELTA Systems is Israel’s Zmag, and ZD vehicle performance and mobility ground forces for defense, intelligence and radar from off-road vehicle even in extremely difficult assault, and intelligence.” house and a global leader manufacturer Ido Cohen. off-road conditions. IAI ELTA’s new ground forces in remote sensing, radar, The all-terrain vehicles will will adapt them to a broad facility is under construction breakthrough strategic be upgraded for military range of operational military at an investment of tens systems such as mission and homeland defense and homeland defense of millions in innovative aircraft, national cyber applications with a range configurations in line with technological and R&D organizations, ground of intelligence, radar, and the needs of IAI’s customers. infrastructure. ELTA Beer robotic systems, anti-drone communication systems Yoav Turgeman, IAI Sheba will perform the defense, homeland defense manufactured by IAI’s ELTA VP and CEO of ELTA, vehicle development systems, and more. Systems, including the Drone said, “We are excited Guard system for drone to collaborate with Ido detection and foiling, air Cohen, a visionary vehicle defense, and intelligence manufacturer from Israel. collection systems. Under IAI offers a broad range the deal, IAI will receive of ground intelligence, rights to the design of the robotics, autonomous vehicles and will market vehicles and remote sensing them to defense entities in capabilities. Integrating Israel and abroad following these capabilities on the their upgrade. Ido Cohen Z Vehicle Family provides

Rosoboronexport to Roll out A State-of-the-Art Radar, Capable of Detecting Hypersonic Targets

JSC Rosoboronexport (part of Rostec State Corporation) has started marketing work to bring on the world market of armaments the 59N6-TE mobile three-dimensional radar, developed and produced by the JSC “Federal Research and Production Center “Nizhniy Novgorod Research Institute of Radio Engineering” (NNIIRT).

“Thanks to the work of thousands of Russian researchers, designers and engineers, Rosoboronexport may offer to its foreign partners unique defence solutions, which often do

not have countertypes all over the world and are in line with the newest trends in modern warfare. Today Rosoboronexport is introducing to the market a cutting edge radar, capable of detecting effectively a wide range of existing and future aerial targets, to include hypersonic targets. While developing the export version of the radar, the growing role of air defence assets for the provision of security of states was taken into account, as well as the needs of foreign customers in the expansion of the reconnaissance capabilities of

their air defence units,” said Rosoboronexport’s Director General Alexander Mikheev.

The 59N6-TE mobile three-dimensional station is an exclusively Russianmade product, which implies present-day Russian hardware components with digital processing and signal generation. It is fully solidstate and has high potential together with enhanced jamming resistance. The 59N6-TE is a radar of medium and high altitude, having a decimeter wavelength range. Apart from hypersonic targets, it also effectively detects aerodynamic and ballistic objects.

The 59N6-TE radar provides for the measurement of the range, azimuth and altitude of aerial targets. It is capable of detecting objects, flying at a speed of up to 8 000 km/h at a range of up to 450 kilometers and at an altitude of up to 200 kilometers. After detection, it exchanges radar information with C4I complexes. It operates in conditions of jamming and carries out direction finding of active noise jammers.

The station has an automatic and a semiautomatic mode of aerial targets’ acquisition and tracking. In a real time mode it may simultaneously track no less than 1 000 objects and recognize 8 classes of targets, which includes selection of anti-radar missiles and warning its own combat crew of the danger of elimination, inter alia, by high precision munitions and homing missiles. The 59N6-TE radar also includes equipment for the recognition of detected aerial targets in international radar recognition systems Mk-XA and ATC RBS.

The 59N6-TE radar set includes an antennahardware complex and an indicator post, placed on a standard vehicle chassis of the “KAMAZ-6560” type. There are also options to place the item on a single vehicle chassis, deploy it in a

stationary version or to place the radar antenna system on a high tower support and other installations. Besides, the station is equipped with remote operator’s work stations, which may stay at a distance of up to one kilometer from the indicator post if connected via glass fiber links, and up to 15 kilometers in case of using a radio link.

“In am confident that in present-day conditions and with obvious prospects of

hypersonic technologies, the 59N6-TE radar will take top positions in its market segment and will become an important asset for countries, which are building their own air defence systems with the account of the world trends of air attack weapons development. We rely on high demand for the new station in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East and North Africa,” added Alexander Mikheev.

Air Marshal VR Chaudhari Assumes Command of Western Air Command, IAF

Air Marshal VR Chaudhari AVSM VM took over as Air Officer Commandingin-Chief of Western Air Command, Indian Air Force (IAF) on 01 Aug 2020. The Air Marshal took over command from Air Marshal B Suresh PVSM AVSM VM ADC.

Air Marshal VR Chaudhari was commissioned into Fighter Stream of the IAF on 29 Dec 1982 as a Fighter Pilot. In a distinguished career spanning nearly 38 years, the Air Officer has flown wide variety of fighter and trainer aircraft in the inventory of IAF. He has a flying experience of more than 3800 hrs, including operational flying on MiG21, MiG-23 MF, MiG 29 and Su-30 MKI fighter aircraft.

During his illustrious career in the IAF, the Air Officer has held numerous important appointments. He was Commanding Officer of a frontline fighter squadron and has also commanded a frontline Fighter Base. As an Air Vice Marshal, he held the coveted appointments of Assistant Chief of Air Staff Operations (Air Defence), Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Personnel Officers) at Air HQ Vayu Bhawan. As an Air Marshal, he held the appointment of Deputy Chief of the Air Staff at Air HQ Vayu Bhawan. Prior to his present appointment, he was the Senior Air Staff Officer, Eastern Air Command. The Air Marshal is an alumnus of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington.

In recognition of his distinguished service, the Air Marshal was awarded Vayu Sena Medal in January 2004 and the Ati Vishist Seva Medal in January 2015.

3DX-Ray Supply Threatscan®-LS1 Scanner to a Counter-Terrorist Unit

3DX-Ray has announced a contract for the supply of ThreatScan®-LS1 flat screen scanner to a European Counter-Terrorist Unit.

The flexibility of ThreatScan®-LS1 flat screen scanner allows counter terror officers to rapidly examine and assess threats and suspect items on site, such as bags, laptops, furniture and even enables them to locate and identify hidden cameras and surveillance equipment.

Each system consists of a portable X-ray generator, a detection panel and an operators workstation running 3DX-Rays marketleading image processing software, together with a customer-specific range of ancillary equipment.

ThreatScan® is lightweight, incredibly thin, has a large imaging area of 600 x 460mm, enabling bags and objects to be scanned in one scan. This system can penetrate up to 34mm steel at 120kV while producing high quality, sub-millimetre resolution images.

ThreatScan® can be used to inspect suspect bags and packages in mass transit areas, such as; rail and bus stations, shopping malls, airports, stadia and sports arenas. It is also best suited for general security inspection by first responders such as Police, Military and Private and Government Security agencies. 3DX-RAY LTD, Sales and Marketing Director, Vincent Deery said: “We are very pleased with this contract because it demonstrates how versatile and flexible the systems are in protecting and enabling police officers in the pursuit of their duties.”

INDRA will Reinforce Safety of 11 Military Airbases in South Korea

The Ministry of (ECCM) based on frequency after completing the Indra is one of the global Defence of South agility techniques. These modernization of the leaders in the defence Korea has awarded systems will work in systems that today market and one of the Indra the supply and combination with secondary manage and monitor air companies coordinating implementation of air radars, with the capacity of traffic in Seoul in 2018. the development of the traffic surveillance and Friend/Foe identification, A few years earlier, the FCAS air combat system, an management systems to which have different company had already advanced system based on reinforce safety and control modes of interrogation, implemented its radars a new generation aircraft of air operations at the both civil and military. at Jeju Island’s airport that commands several main Air Force bases. The data collected by to strengthen the safety unmanned aerial vehicles

This project was awarded this equipment will be of some of the busiest which will be supported by a to Indra in an international displayed on the air traffic routes in the country combat cloud to interoperate tender in competition management systems and around the world. with other platforms in with the main defence that the company will Indra is a company with real-time. The FCAS is and air traffic companies implement in the Air a strong presence in the currently the most ambitious from USA and rest of the Force approach and tower Asia region, where it has and technologically world and it is the first centers at each base. already modernized air advanced defence project one entrusted to Indra The military controllers will traffic management in underway in Europe. by the Republic of South gain precision in identifying China, Mongolia, Vietnam Indra is also one of the Korea Air Force (ROKAF). and knowing the position or Indonesia. It has also most important companies

The systems, to be of each aircraft, and will revamped urban transport in the construction of the delivered over four years, give better support to pilots systems in Malaysia, “Europe of Defence”, leading will help manage aircraft in their approach, landing successfully commercialized cutting-edge projects movements and improve and take-off maneuvers. its pilot training simulators focused on the development the efficiency of the Indra will work on this in Malaysia and China, of new command and Air Force’s missions. project together with and provided support to control systems, electronic

The company will provide Korean companies with the companies of the energy defence and cyber security, S-band primary radars, aim of ensuring workload sector in the region. The as well as participating equipped with multiple for the local industry. company has also supplied in projects related to modes of operation, which The contract consolidates 3D defence radars to unmanned aircraft, satellite incorporate electronic the company’s position Thailand and other Pacific positioning or maritime counter-countermeasures in the Asian country countries such as Australia. surveillance, among others.