An Indigenised Army Airborne Control Centre
Future Army aviation operations depend on the development of technologies and systems that support effective on the move command of airborne and ground based manoeuvre forces through shared situational awareness and decision aiding technologies. It is submitted, that the Indian army needs an airborne command and control system for the TBA. Such a system will combine comprehensive battle field communication capabilities with a sophisticated computing facility. The army airborne system can be housed within a helicopter, preferably the Indian ALH known as Dhruv. The above stated project can be completely executed by in house ideas, by the Indians and for the Indians. International sophisticated systems are prohibitive in terms of cost and we have to depend upon their time frame as far as procurement and operationalisation is concerned. This is unacceptable and very often there are accompanying technologies and functions that we do not need.
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Software defined radio (SDR) is an emerging technology that is profoundly changing the radio system engineering. A software defined radio consists of functional blocks similar to other digital communication systems. However, the software defined radio concept lays new demands on the architecture in order to be able to provide multi-band, multi-mode operation and reconfigurability, which are needed for supporting a configurable set of air interface standards.
The EFB is like a Flight manual in digital form. It can be extensively used for Pilot flight related application like, Jeppesen charts, Emergency drills, check lists and load calculation etc. The EFB can be designed with wireless LAN facility wherein, the Pilot is accessible anytime and anywhere. Global broadcast messages like MET data or emergency messages can be made available to the Pilot. In addition to these applications, the EFB is a friend in the case of an emergency landing since there is a facility to send and receive messages.