PM hands over advanced electronic warfare system ‘Shakti’ to the Indian Navy

Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently handed over an advanced electronic warfare system ‘Shakti’ to the Navy in the Jhansi city of Uttar Pradesh.

Shakti is meant for interception, detection, classification, identification and jamming of conventional and modern radars.

Key Highlights

• It is developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the capital warships of the Navy.

• The Prime Minister also presented the miniaturised model of Shakti EW System to the Chief of the Naval Staff at Jhansi Fort under the ongoing three-day ‘Raksha Samarpan Parv’.

• Twelve Shakti Systems, developed by Defence Electronics Research Laboratory of DRDO, are under production at Bharat Electronics Ltd with more than fifty MSMEs at a total cost of ₹ 1,805 crores, said officials known with the development.

• In pursuance of the constant quest to enhance the capabilities of EW systems, the officials said that the Shakti system would replace earlier generation indigenous EW Systems.

• According to the officials, Shakti is a true symbol of Atmanirbhar Bharat in the areas of advanced defence technologies.

• The Prime Minister also handed over DRDO designed and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) manufactured advanced EW suites for naval ships including that for Indian Aircraft Carrier Vikrant. 

SOURCE: The Hindu

Download as PDF