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Indian Navy - Sagar Defence

Jun 12, 20242 min read

Date: 2023 Participants:

  • Sagar Defence Engineering
  • Indian Navy

The Indian Navy successfully completed a test of a quadcopter built by Sagar Defence, taking off from INS Vikrant, the Navy’s aircraft carrier. It also landed on another ship1. The drones will be important to the Naval Shipborne Aerial System (NSAS)

In the 2000s, the Navy inducted the Searcher and Heron drones from Israel, which helped with ISTAR and COMINT (Communications Intelligence) missions using electro-optic cameras

What is the Indian Navy working on?

  1. Landing Platform Decks (LPD) - LPDs are amphibious warfare ships that support the take-off, transport, and landing of landing craft for expeditionary war missions2. LPDs can be useful for landing and moving UAVs for ISTAR missions too
  2. Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAV) - UCAVs are drones specialized for combat and warfare missions
  3. Transfer UAV Command - When a drone is launched from one warship, the Navy can transfer its command and control to another designated warship securely3

Advantages

  1. God’s Eye - UAVs are great for persistent surveillance and real-time monitoring of any spot. This helps boost situational awareness
  2. Catch the Signals - UAVs can intercept and analyse enemy signals and provide valuable insights into enemy plans and movement to give the Indian Navy a tactical advantage
  3. Lock-on - Drones can perform Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) to lock on to targets with high accuracy and precision
  4. Send and Forget - Drones can be programmed to autonomously track targets and follow waypoints
  5. Extended Ears - UAVs help in bridging communications between the Navy warships and Navy satellite

Footnotes

  1. https://idrw.org/sagar-defence-engineering-achieves-milestone-with-quadcopter-drone-operation-on-ins-vikrant/#:~:text=March%202024%20(330),in%20India’s%20drone%20warfare%20ambitions. ↩

  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibious_transport_dock#:~:text=An%20amphibious%20transport%20dock%2C%20also%20called%20a,navies%20currently%20operate%20this%20kind%20of%20ship. ↩

  3. https://www.republicworld.com/defence/indian-armed-forces/indias-indigenous-carrier-ins-vikrant-makes-historic-breakthrough-with-deck-based-uav-operations/?amp=1 ↩

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