Rustum2 UAV will be ready in a year: DRDO

Next generation unmanned aerial vehicle Rustum2, which is capable of operating at an altitude of 30,000 feet and 24-hour endurance with a payload of 350 kg, will be made available within a year, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Secretary Avinash Chander said on Tuesday.

The UAV would be used for defence operations, including reconnaissance and target identification.

Delivering the 27th Intelligence Bureau Centenary Endowment Lecture on “Emerging Technological Challenges for National Security,” Dr. Chander said the UAV was capable of carrying sensors like aperture radar, maritime patrol radar, communication and electronic intelligence, optical and infrared imagery sensors, including those developed indigenously.

While the Nishant UAV is already in use by security forces, the RUSTOM1, with a capability of 7-8 hours of endurance is also ready. While aerostats, which operate at an altitude of 1 km for surveillance activities, have already been developed, a team of young scientists is working on lighter aerial platforms with a capability to fly at 60,000- 70,000 feet.

“High energy weapons, capable of destroying/disabling systems at tens of kilometres, are going to be vital. Unmanned Ground Vehicles will be participating in intelligent missions capable of identifying and distinguishing between friendly and enemy systems with proper signature management,” said Dr. Chander, adding that advanced data compression techniques have enabled soldiers to transmit video imagery through hand-held devices.

Space security infrastructure

Dr. Chander also flagged the necessity to strengthen space security infrastructure. “To achieve self-reliance in the satellite navigation system, India is establishing the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System with dependents from across all the services. It is necessary to safeguard such system of national importance...space assets are vulnerable to electronic warfare like jamming, laser attacks, killer micro-satellites,” he said.

The DRDO Secretary said inclusion of futuristic technologies would revolutionise the intelligence infrastructure.

He also talked about foray into areas of nanotechnology and micro-electromechanical systems operated wirelessly on a computer network for sensing through radio-frequency identification, besides convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information and cognitive technology.

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Source:THE HINDU

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India to match China's economic growth by 2020: Economist

India would catch up with its neighbour China in terms of economic growth by the turn of this decade, noted economist Pranab Bardhan said Friday.

Bardhan, a professor at the University of California, was delivering the third B.G. Kumar memorial lecture at the Centre for Development Studies here Friday evening.

'A potential advantage India has over China in speeding up its economic growth is the demographic shift in favour of young and able working population. This would put India in a higher growth trajectory and the country could catch up with the economic growth of China by 2020,' said Bardhan.

He also said that the world' two most populous economies would garner a lion's share of the world output and income, surpassing the now developed countries such as the US and Japan.

According to the current estimates, the combined size of India's and China's economy by the year 2025 would be 36 percent, he said.

He noted that more than the global environment, it was the domestic policy changes and initiatives that helped China achieve a higher growth trajectory.

China had transferred itself from a Communist economy to a household income-based economy. This has helped the country achieve a sort of relative income equality, improve standard of education as well as healthcare. This has gone a long way in helping China achieve higher economic and social development, he added.

'Another feature that spurred the overall growth in China is the key role played by the township and village industries under the control of local officials who enjoyed much autonomy. India should take a leaf out of this Chinese lesson to evolve a system of reward and punishment for the performers and laggards among the Indian bureaucracy,' said Bardhan.


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BSF jawans must have 6hour uninterrupted sleep:BSF Director General Raman Srivastava

The secret to an alert jawan is sufficient and uninterrupted sleep when off duty. But it took two recent studies by BSF headquarters here to realise that unbroken sleep for 2-3 hours was but a luxury for its personnel guarding the country’s borders day and night.

Setting out to reverse the years of injustice meted out to the humble jawan, BSF Director General Raman Srivastava has now issued orders to all his Frontier IGs to ensure that every jawan gets not only 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep in a 24-hour cycle, but is also given a weekly off to attend to his personal needs and requirements while remaining available in the border outpost for emergencies.

With depression cases rising among the Central forces, mainly on account of duty fatigue and apathy of their seniors to their requests for leave, Mr Srivastava took cue from the two studies commissioned by the BSF on the rest and relief patterns of jawans deployed at the borders. The studies threw up some shocking facts. The first being that, on an average, a jawan is engaged in operational duties for 13-15 hours everyday, besides 2-3 hours of other general maintenance duties. It was also found that jawans in almost all the frontiers get to sleep only 2-3 hours at a stretch and go without a single day off in the entire month.

The fact that the poor jawan is at the mercy of his commandant to clear his annual leave, who uses the non-transparency in leave sanction policy to keep his subordinate waiting, did not help matters either. Mr Srivastava, while warning his frontier IGs that the sleep-deprived jawan would either collapse under the workload in a few weeks or would find time to sleep on operational duties, sought an immediate review of the deployment patterns and border domination plan with a view to ensuring that “every jawan gets at least 6-7 hours of uninterrupted sleep every 24 hours and also gets at least one day off every week.”


from:Economics Times

Nag hits the spot in 3 second...

The Indian Nag anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) was test-fired successfully at close range (500-metres ) at the Army field firing range at Shamirpet in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday.

Anti-tank guided missile Nag on Sunday successfully destroyed the target in three seconds after its launch from a Nag missile carrier (Namica), Nag Project Director S.S. Mishra told TheHindu.

Defence Research and Development Organisation's Chief Controller (Missile Systems) K. Shekhar, DRDL director and programme director of Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme P. Venugopalan and personnel from of the office of the Director General of Mechanised Forces were present during the test-firing.

with output from:the hindu

GSLV-3D launch fails.

In a setback to India's space programme, GSLV D-3, the satellite launch vehicle showcasing its indigenous cryogenic technology, trailed off its designated course and went out of control shortly after lift-off from the spaceport on Thursday. The rocket, along with its two payloads -- satellites GSAT-4 and GAGAN -- crashed into the Bay of Bengal 293 seconds after launch.

The launch was key to India's space programme as it would have become the sixth nation to successfully deploy the cryogenic technology, joining US, Russia, Japan, China and France. The earlier five versions of the GSLV had Russia-supplied cryogenic engine. India's cryogenic upper stage (CUS) engine was meant to replace the Russian engines.

GSLV Rises, And Falls
4.27:00pm: GSLV-D3 soars into sky from Sriharikota spaceport at the end of 29-hr countdown
4.29:31: First stage separates
4.29:33: Stage two ignites
4.30:48: Heatshield separates
4.31:53: Isro loses contact with launch vehicle as it veers off course
4.32:04: Presumed ignition of cryogenic engine

What Went Wrong

* Failure still being analysed but possibly the two steering engines, which control the rocket's path, may not have ignited in the cryogenic stage

* ISRO chief not sure if main cryogenic engine ignited

Second Failure

* Out of six launches, this is the second time GSLV has failed

* This was first launch using indigenously made cryogenic engine.

GSLV launch to make ISRO self reliant

India’s hunt for a satellite-based global positioning system is nearing its end. On April 15, a muchawaited GSLV launch will place in orbit a satellite with navigational features and will be followed by three more which will be part of Geo Augmented Navigational system (GAGAN) aimed at enhancing satellite signals to the levels needed for a GPS programme.

The launch will be the first part of a plan that eventually leads to an Indian regional navigational satellite system which is to be in place by 2014. When fully operational, it will cover the entire Indian landmass with an additional range of 1,500 km.