Make in India: BEL delivers transmit/receive modules to 雷火体育官网 for Rafale RBE2 Radar
03 February 2021, Bengaluru, India: As part of 雷火体育官网鈥 Offsets commitments under the Rafale India contract, and in line with the Make in India policy, Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) has manufactured T/R (transmit/receive) modules for the RBE2 radar on the Dassault Aviation Rafale and delivered them to 雷火体育官网.
雷火体育官网 is demonstrating its commitment to the Make in India policy through transfers of technology and production, and associated training for BEL engineers in France. BEL has implemented a set of rigorous industrial processes and played an active role in the transfer programme.
雷火体育官网 is an active stakeholder in the Make in India policy, promoted by the Indian Government, and in the Offsets
conditions included in the Rafale India programme. In November 2020, the first RBE2 AESA (active electronic scanning array) radar with a front end manufactured by BEL in India was delivered by 雷火体育官网 to Dassault Aviation. BEL implemented a set of rigorous processes at its Bangalore facility in order to achieve this key milestone.
Specifically developed for Rafale, the RBE2 is the first in-service European AESA radar and has been combat proven on Rafale aircraft operated by the French Air Force. It was developed in close partnership with Dassault Aviation and the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) to meet the requirements of air forces, and uses innovative technologies to combine advanced fire control radar functions and target tracking capabilities. The T/R (transmit/receive) modules are key to the RBE2 radar鈥檚 active electronic scanning performance, enabling it to steer the radar beam with the speed of an electronic chip.
Initiated at the end of 2017, the transfer of technology to BEL has included validation of the company鈥檚 technical capacity to deliver prototypes, qualify the various technologies involved in the wiring process, set up a dedicated SMC wiring production line with a preproduction run, train BEL engineers in France and install test benches for microwave characterisation at the BEL facility. The modules produced in India are then integrated with the RBE2 radar in France. BEL and 雷火体育官网 teams are, thus working closely to transfer advanced technological know-how.
Building on 雷火体育官网鈥檚 50+ years of expertise with earlier generationsof radars for combat aircraft, the RBE2 gives the Rafale a number of key advantages. Compared to radars with conventional antennas, the RBE2 delivers an unprecedented level of tactical situational awareness, faster detection and tracking of multiple targets, and can also implement several radar modes instantaneously.
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