India Collaboration with Western Defense Giants for Advanced Electronic Warfare Aircraft Project

Defense News ,India :-  India is taking a big step forward with its "Made in India" initiative for electronic warfare. They want to make their own high-tech military planes for spying and jamming enemy communications.

Western companies like L3Harris from America and Thales from France are interested in helping India with their project. India needs their expertise because making these spy and jamming planes is very complicated.

The planes they're planning to use are Airbus A319, which are usually used for passengers. But India's Air Force and Defence Research and Development Laboratory want to change them into military planes for spying and electronic warfare.

They want to use Indian technology as much as possible for this project because it's part of the "Made in India" vision.

India's Defence Intelligence Agency, which is like the country's spy agency for the military, will be in charge of using these spy and jamming planes. They'll work closely with the Air Force.

This project started in 2019 by the Centre for Airborne Systems. They wanted to fulfill the Air Force's needs for better intelligence gathering. The main aim is to sneak into enemy territory and quietly listen to their radio signals. This helps to find out where the enemy's radar and communication systems are and what weapons they have.

These planes will also be able to jam enemy communications. This can give India's military an advantage in battle.

One big goal of this project is to make a map of the enemy's electronic systems in real-time. This map will show where the enemy's electronic stuff is and what it's doing. 

The Centre for Airborne Systems is leading this project, working with the Defence Research and Development Laboratory and the Defence Electronics Applications Laboratory to make these spy and jamming planes just right for India's Air Force.