Indian Navy to enhance surveillance capability; to focus on acquiring new-age tech
The Hindu
Indian armed forces have been focussing on procuring unmanned platforms, including armed drones.
The Indian Navy plans to acquire a sizeable number of unmanned aerial and underwater platforms in the next few years to significantly ramp up its surveillance capability in the backdrop of China's increasing forays into the Indian Ocean region, people familiar with the development said on Sunday.
The acquisition will be made as part of a roadmap on unmanned platforms, which was finalised at a conference of the top naval commanders last month that had extensively deliberated on the need to procure new-age platforms, they said.
"The roadmap delves into the requirement of unmanned platforms and provides a direction to meet the demand while ensuring the optimum utilisation of the resources," said one of the people cited above.