New Delhi: Indian army on Friday joined a select band of western armies to field an indigenious satellite-based Army Wide Area Network (AWAN) communication system, which was dedicated to the nation by President APJ Abdul Kalam in New Delhi.
AWAN, which boasts of a high bandwith, would enable the headquarters secure quicker messages, both graphical and textual, from army units in the frontiers and also pave the way for taking on the challenges of digital warfare.
Switching on the system by sending live messages to army units based in Leh, Tezpur and Pune, the President said in times to come, AWAN system would be the centre of warfare connectivity to turn out "smart soliders".
They would be equipped with mini computers and smart helmets that would enable them to deal with both offensive and defensive manouevres by getting hooked up from battlefield to AWAN system.
AWAN which offers desktop to desktop connectivity between 174 signal centres of the army, will also enable forces converge telematic services like e-mailing, chat, facsmile and web-managed networking.
"Surveillance, reconnisance and intelligence gathering and range and lethality of weapons that the army is facing would be compressed from the fringes of battlefield to enable real time response of commanders once AWAN is extended to the tactical battle area", according to Lt Gen Davinder Singh Signal officer in Chief at Army Headquarters.
Comments
0 comment