DRDO develops portable system to sniff out enemy radars, track drone threats
The DRDO is developing a portable electronic intelligence (ELINT) module designed to detect, analyze, and jam enemy radar and drone signals. The system uses machine learning to deinterleave complex signals and identify specific radar signatures in challenging terrain.
Why it matters
Enhanced portable electronic warfare capabilities significantly improve tactical situational awareness and defense against drone threats in remote border regions.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is moving to develop man-portable electronic intelligence modules, a compact system meant to pick up and analyse the signals that enemy radars or any other antennas emit. The tender has been issued by the Defence Electronics Research Laboratory (DRDL) located in Hyderabad. Electronic intelligence, or ELINT, is the practice of capturing signals from radars and other electronic equipment and studying them to work out what kind of system is operating and its technical characteristics are. A radar or an drone operator could be emitting signals, which could inform about the frequency range of the device sending out signals. This could help jam the system more effectively, focussing on those particular frequencies and thereby rendering the effectiveness of the system.The process begins with the antenna and receiver, which pick up signals across several frequency bands, since different radars work on different frequencies.
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