New Delhi: As Pakistan launched waves of air strikes between 7 and 10 May, India’s multi -level air defense network was firm. The inheritance of Soviet-era systems and state-of-the-art indigenous and imported platforms provoked dangers in major fronts, protecting military bases and civic areas and reduced damage.
Those who stood on their ground in air defense systems were the missile systems in the air from the Soviet original surface such as Pekora and Osa-AK. Despite the lack of severe shortage, the readiness of their fight was persisted through a battlefield hack – cannibalist parts from passive units to keep others running.
During Operation Sindor, the armed forces maintained the operational readiness of the Petora and OSA-AK missile system through a logistic work-round, “cannibal”, transferring functional components from passive units to active people. This enabled heritage systems to remain a combat-redness and attach a series of air threats including UAVs, littering monks and missiles.
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With traditional supply chains no longer produced parts for these decades old platforms, this method became necessary. By systematically reproducing the vital parts, the forces ensured that at least a part of the Sam battery remained in the entire operation.
In the early 1970s, the Indian Air Force (IAF) included Pachora (S-125 NEVA/Pechora) designed to combat rapidly growing air goals, with a medium-grade surface missile system from the surface of a medium-grade, with a strike with a 25 km range and a strike with a height of 18 km.
OSA-C (SA-8 Gecko), a short-range, excessive mobile SAM system, on-in-one-track launcher equipped with onboard radar and six ready-to-fire missiles, which makes it specially effective in defending forward airbase and command features.
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Sources in the defense and safety establishment stated that anything vizzle and re-purposes, such as radar transviers, fire-control processors, command modules and data-link terminals, wherever needed, identified, tested and re-evaluated. Ensured that a part of the minimum -aged missile battery was ready to disrupt functional and upcoming dangers.
“These inheritance systems are no longer produced in most parts. To keep the system completely operational, the forces have reproduced the component from one unit to maintain two other people in a combat position,” said one of the sources.
By 2010-2011, IAF released global tenders for the purchase of parts supporting missile systems and fighter platforms in the air from its aging Russian-zo surface. While some parts were obtained through international vendors, parallel efforts were also initiated to develop indigenous options, including Russian firms and defense public sector undertakings such as joint enterprises such as Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL).
Despite these measures, availability continued to retain, especially for high-end components including radar modules, electronic guidance units and missile interface assembly. This deficiency is mainly stems as these heritage systems are no longer in production, the cannibal is only creating a viable stopgap system.
Although the aging was considered in the early 2000s, the Pacora system was modernized in 2016 with a project of Rs 2,000 crore in partnership with Bell and Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) to upgrade 60 firing units in 2016. This effort increased radar performance and replaced obsolete electronics, expanding the service life of the system.
Meanwhile, the OSA -K units have performed periodic overhauls through uniform Indian-Russian cooperation, ensuring that their radar and missiles are serving.
Sources said that these heritage platforms said, “Punjab, Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir provided coverage in vast parts of northern and western India, where new systems were either deployed or placed in reserve.”
A press conference at a press conference stated, “Even older and martial air defense weapons such as Pichora, OSA-AK and advertising guns performed effectively in combating Pakistani threats …. It was impossible to violate our wall of air defense.”
The wall, as it has been revealed, was not only built with newly acquired state -of -the -art platforms, but also brought back to life through simplicity and improvement with decades old systems.
(Edited by Tony Rai)