Jupiter effects radar integration for IAF

Jupiter Strategic Technologies, a software product firm owned by Member of Parliament Rajeev Chandrasekhar, has implemented a Pilot Integrated Air Command and Control System for Indian Air Force at its base in Thiruvananthapuram.

According to an official statement from Jupiter, this system Integrates the radar pictures of the IAF, Navy and the civil radars in the Southern Peninsula through a multi-radar data fusion software and presents the complete air situation picture of the peninsula in real time in the headquarters.

“Indian Military, IAF, Navy and Civil radars have been integrated in real time. This is a leap in indigenous capability,” the statement added.

According to Jupiter officials, Sound Multi Sensor Algorithm provides unambiguous tracking of aircraft. The system also provides facilities to support Air Defence functions like automatic surveillance, identification, threat evaluation, interception and recovery. The system would increase the operational preparedness of the Southern Air Command and aid in optimum utilisation of the air defence resources, an official from Jupiter detailed.

Detailing the advantages of this solution, the official said that this system would enable the IAF to have a bird’s eye view of the air space in the entire southern theatre. “The coverage extends from the Bay of Bengal to Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and major part of Sri Lanka.

With this system IAF would be able to monitor all civil and military air movements and avoid civil aircraft straying into unauthorised air space like the Purulia incident which happened a few years ago,” he noted.

The statement further noted that this system is ideally suited to Southern Air Command for implementing their ‘Flexi Air Space’ concept where the civil and military aviation coexist. The system also provides ample opportunity to integrate more radars into it in future.