The Defence Research Development Organisation finally has its own flying platform, a light aircraft, for testing a new set of air-borne radars. The recently acquired ‘Nabhratna’ (or jewel in the sky), a custom-built Dornier-228 aircraft, will speed up the development cycle of special radars that the DRDO is working on, Director-General Mr Avinash Chander said. Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. said it had built the aircraft in under a year, and six months ahead of schedule. Equipped with an indigenous synthetic aperture radar, avionics and communication system, the aircraft will be used in the coming months by the Bangalore-based LRDE (Electronics and Radar Development Establishment) to evaluate the performance of various radars under development.

Source: Hindu

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