Bangalore , February 9 : A prestigious state-of-art technology, indigenously designed and developed Radar Computer I and Radar Computer II are being manufactured since 2004 at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Avionics Division, Hyderabad. These are integrated into Airborne Radar System in Su-30MKI A/c. Radar Computers are very critical for mission operation on the A/c. RC-I is used for accomplishing coordinated mission operations among related avionics systems in the A/c, whereas RC-II is used to accomplish the coordinated operations within Radar system.
Till date, a total number of 300 numbers each of these computers are produced by the Division for various Aircraft programmes of Indian Airforce, Algerian Airforce through Rosoboronexport and Russian Air Force through Rosoboronexport.
Delighted by the performance of RC I and RC II, IRKUT Corporation, Russia has confirmed purchase of 34 sets each of Radar Computer-I & Radar Computer-II for Russian Air Force requirements from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Avionics Division, Hyderabad with delivery schedule commencing from January 2014 onwards. The value of the contract is 12.2 million USD (Rs 65 crore). At present these Radar computers are being manufactured at Kasargod unit of HAL (Kerala), which was recently inaugurated by Defence Minister A K Antony.
