Jane's Defense Weekly
March 5 2020
Rahul Bedi, New Delhi – Jane's Defence Weekly
05 March 2020
Armenia has recently acquired four Indian weapon locating radars for USD40 million to enhance its counter-rocket, artillery and mortar (C-RAM) and counter-battery fire capabilities.
Military officials in New Delhi told Jane’s on 29 February that the Swathi radars, designed by the government-run Defence Research and Development Organisation and manufactured by state-owned Bharat Electronics, were selected over competing systems from Poland and Russia following trials in 2018–19.
In service with the Indian Army since March 2017, the passive electronically scanned array weapon locating radar has a 360° scan capability to detect and track incoming heavy artillery rounds up to a range of 30 km and rockets up to 40 km.