NTRO to acquire airborne reconnaissance and target acquisition platforms

[Agnostic_Indian]

Entrusted with the task of conducting persistent , all -weather year - round surveillance of the 4 ,057km -long Line of Actual Control ( LAC ) since 2004 along the un -demarcated Sino-Indian border , the Dehra Dun-based National Technical Research Organisation ( NTRO) is soon expected to acquire up to two airborne reconnaissance , intelligence , surveillance , and target acquisition (RISTA ) platforms , which will be flown and maintained by the Research & Analysis Wing’ s Aviation Research Centre , but will come under the NTRO ’ s operational control . The new acquisitions will supplement the ARC ’ s existing fleet of two Israel Aerospace Industries - built Astra 1125 twinjets that are both equipped with belly-mounted long-range oblique photography cameras . The to-be -selected RISTA platform for the NTRO is widely believed to be a customised version of the SEMA , which has been developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI ) . The SEMA can be used for strategic SIGINT operations as well as theatre -wide battlespace surveillance . For the latter role, the SEMA, using the Gulfstream Aerospace - built G-550 bizjet as the platform, can be equipped with the EL /M -2060 P synthetic aperture radar (SAR) — developed by the ELTA Systems subsidiary of IAI , for real -time ground moving target indication ( GTMI ). The EL /M -2060 P is capable of tracking hostile ground targets — both stationary and mobile — 300km away and using Ku -band and X -band data links for transmitting battlespace reconnaissance data to ground - based theatre command-/ Corps- level HQs in real-time . When used for SIGINT missions, the SEMA comes equipped with a belly - mounted EL /I -3001 SIGINT suite that will search , intercept , measure , localise, analyse, classify and monitor short -duration ground and airborne transmissions and their signals parameters — all aimed at building up , in real-time , a full -spectrum picture of the electronic order of battle .FORCE - A Complete News Magazine on National Security - Defence Magazine

 

[jha]

Very good development..

 

[Kinetic]

They gave so much details about the spy planes, where they will be placed, how many numbers!!! I wish they are not correct in most of the numbers.

 

[Veeru]

They gave so much details about the spy planes, where they will be placed, how many numbers!!! I wish they are not correct in most of the numbers.

Free speech and democracy is much abused in India by media, NGOs etc.

 

[angeldemon_007]

good work, I hope they acquire more and more resources...

 

[jha]

They gave so much details about the spy planes, where they will be placed, how many numbers!!! I wish they are not correct in most of the numbers.

.. There always is a difference between actual figure and published one..You do not really believe that RAW is not already operating these.do you..?

 

[Kinetic]

Free speech and democracy is much abused in India by media, NGOs etc.

200% agreed. I think India is the only country where people do so much abuse of freedom of media and speech. Countless examples. This is too much.

.. There always is a difference between actual figure and published one..You do not really believe that RAW is not already operating these.do you..?

Mate, I wish not.

 

[angeldemon_007]

NTRO to acquire airborne reconnaissance and target acquisition platforms
Entrusted with the task of conducting persistent , all -weather year - round surveillance of the 4 ,057km -long Line of Actual Control ( LAC ) since 2004 along the un -demarcated Sino-Indian border , the Dehra Dun-based National Technical Research Organisation ( NTRO) is soon expected to acquire up to two airborne reconnaissance , intelligence , surveillance , and target acquisition (RISTA ) platforms

Entrusted with such a big responsibility, i don' think they are given enough infrastructure and aircrafts. They should be given many more surveillance aircrafts.