Threat of bio terrorism: India building its first bio-radar
By Express News Service - BANGALORE
21st June 2012 09:34 AM
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Director General of DRDO Dr V K Saraswat inaugurating a new technical facility of DEBEL in Bangalore on Wednesday. | EPS
India has started building its one of the first bio-radars as the threat of bio-terrorism looms large over the country. It is conceived to act as an early warning system.
The Defence Bioengineering and Electromedical Laboratory (DEBEL) will be attempting to make a bio-radar with the help of nano technology as indicated by the Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister and Director General of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) V K Saraswat.
He said that their R&D efforts would try to build this product to avert a biological or chemical attack. Elaborating further, DEBEL’s Director V Padaki said the components of the bio-radar would detect the existence of any quarantine material and communicate it to the control room. This, he said, would give an indication of the quarantine material and also prepare to counter a biological or chemical attack.
He also said that they were using nanocensors as nano gave a far better surface area than a conventional censor. Highlighting DEBEL’s area of focus, he said that the laboratory was nearing completion of the Integrated Life Support System (ILSS), a part of the Onboard Oxygen Generation System developed for the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA-Tejas). He said that it would help in providing higher flight endurance for the soon to be inducted aircraft.
Speaking on other variant of Tejas, the LCA -Navy, which is currently undergoing trials here, Saraswat said that the aircraft would be headed to Goa for shore trials and ski-jump trials by December this year. He said that they would asses the data from its first 5-7 flights and constantly upgrade their levels of functioning to optimum efficiency.
On the Airborne Early Warning and Control (AWAC) Systems, he said that the first of the Embraer from Brazil would land in India by July this year. “All the radar arrays and building blocks for this have been realised,” he said and pointed out that the programme was going according to schedule.
He said that they would try to get the system ready by January 26, 2013.
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Developing bio-radar to counter bio terrorism and may be using it for bio-medical purposes would be yet another feather in the cap of DRDO? Life Science technological cluster of the DRDO has contributed immensely for defence by focusing on the man/woman behind the fighting machines from their selection to psychological & physiological needs.
Posted by Air Cmde Raghubir Singh(Retd)-IDST Pune at 06/21/2012 16:53 Reply to this Report abuse