NEW DELHI: The Indian army has fully developed and assimilated the rapid system of advanced communications for battlefield operations and is poised to step up the use of satellite and strategic troposcatter communication.
Disclosing this to reporters here Maj Gen S.S. Bains, additional director general Signals at Army Headquarters, said the army had initiated action for securing communications to forward areas against sabotage particularly in the sensitive border state of Kashmir.
The rapid system of advanced communication, which uses the grid system and mobile computer for frontline battle assessment during thrusts by infantry and armor, had first been experimented upon during “operation bras stacks,” the massive army exercise held on the Pak border in 1987, Gen Bains said.
Gen Bains said corps of signals which celebrates its eightieth anniversary Wednesday, pad made equal strides in providing secure and protected communications systems in the mountainous terrains as well as bridging distances over ocean.
When it was pointed out that disturbed conditions in Kashmir and Punjab might lead to disruption by sabotage in the event of any conflict, Gen Bains said foolproof alternative modes existed to maintain communication links.
He said both in Operation Pawan in Sri Lanka and in Operation Cactus in the Maldives the use of the troposcatter with a multi-channel Data Base provided communication links over 350 to 400 kms.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 23, 1990
