Swathi Weapon Locating radar

Swathi Weapon Locating radar

Part of: Prelims and GS-III-Security

In news–

• Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) bags $40mn defence deal from Armenia for supplying four Swathi Weapon Locating Radars (WLR)
• Swathi WLR was indigenously developed by DRDO and manufactured by BEL.
• It is an electronically scanned phased array radar 
• It automatically locates hostile artillery, mortars and rocket launchers and tracks friendly fire to locate the impact point of friendly artillery fire to issue necessary corrections.
• The radar is designed to detect projectiles with small cross section across the battle space horizon, and has the capability to handle simultaneous fire from weapons deployed at multiple locations.
• The radar uses advanced signal processing techniques for detection and tracking projectiles in the presence of ground, weather clutter and other forms of interference in Electronic Warfare scenario.