India needs to have network centric airspace surveillance:DRDO

July 07, 2015 01:34

DRDO Director General, S Christopher, today stressed on the need for having network centric airspace surveillance saying conventional military systems in isolation were likely to be less effective.

He said that an early warning system was a force multiplier as the early information against the adversary provides required edge over it. Speaking at 23rd Prof DS Kothari memorial lecture on "Network Centric Airspace Surveillance: A Force Multiplier" at Defence laboratory, he advised the new scientific generation that in each stage of system development, "they should look for innovation to get the required level of performance."

Giving a comparative overview of AEW&CS (Airborne Early Warning and Control system) across different nations, he brought out the advantages of Indian system over its foreign counterpart.

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