Indian Army indigenously develops secure mobile ecosystem SAMBHAV (GS Paper 3, Science and Technology)
Why in news?
- Recently, the Indian Army has indigenously developed an ‘end-to-end secure mobile ecosystem’ to provide secure communication with instant connectivity on the move.
- The ecosystem, SAMBHAV (Secure Army Mobile Bharat Version) operates on the state-of-the-art contemporary 5G technology and will represent a "significant leap forward in India's defence capability".
- It has been developed in close collaboration with national centres of excellence from the academia and industry.
Details:
- SAMBHAV will have multi-layered encryption with a pan-India secure ecosystem. It will ride on a commercial network with inherent security.
- This leverages the potential of indigenous public cellular networks in the country and the ecosystem has ‘5G -ready handsets using multi-tier encryption’.
- This aligns with the government of India's efforts towards ‘dual-use infrastructure’ and it also manifests ‘civil-military fusion’ in the field of emerging technology.
CCOSWs:
- Command Cyber Operations Support Wings (CCOSWs) are being established, which are "special sub-units" to augment cyber capability. Cyber capability is being enhanced and integrated at all levels with defence cyber agencies at strategic level, while CCOSWs will be functional at "operational and tactical levels.
- Six CCOSWs are being established for all commands. The personnel will be given specialist training and undergo validation exercises.
DRDO successfully conducts flight test of new-generation AKASH missile
(GS Paper 3, Science and Technology)
Why in news?
- India recently conducted a successful flight test of the new generation AKASH missile from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the coast of Odisha.
- The flight test was conducted by DRDO against a high-speed unmanned aerial target at very low altitude.
Performance:
- During the flight test, the target was successfully intercepted by the weapon system and destroyed.
- It has validated the functioning of the complete weapon system consisting of the missile with indigenously developed Radio Frequency Seeker, Launcher, Multi-Function Radar and Command, Control & Communication system.
- The system performance was also validated through the data captured by a number of Radars, Telemetry and Electro Optical Tracking System deployed by ITR, Chandipur.
Way Forward:
- The AKASH-NG system is a state-of-the-art missile system capable of intercepting high speed, agile aerial threats.
- The successful flight test has paved the way for User trials.
