BEL receives order from Army to procure mountain variant of Weapon Locating Radar

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It is learnt from the senior officials of the Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) that it has received orders for the procurement of six units of Weapon Locating Radar (WLR) mountain version called the Swathi Mark II by the Indian Army.
WLR mountain version is a joint development project undertaken by Radar House Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE) (a premier lab of the Defence Research Development Organisation) and BEL to fulfil the long-felt need of the Indian Army.
Speaking with The Indian Express, on the sidelines of a press conference recently, BEL chairman and managing director Anandi Ramalingam had said, “The Indian Army has now ordered a mountainous version of WLR which can be used in higher altitudes. This is lighter in weight and six units have been ordered by the Army. It is a new variant. We are expecting more orders. WLR is completely indigenous.”
BEL officials say that 30 units of the earlier variant of WLR are already with the Army and based on its performance across the Line of Control (LoC), a lighter weight version was requested by the Army.
Reacting on the time that could be saved on simulation for faster testing, Ramalingam had said, “The trial through simulation has started only now but for the big systems like WLR, the user wants to try it in different terrains and temperatures.”
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