Bangalore defence laboratory, the Centre for Air-Borne Systems (CABS), on Wednesday released an indigenously-developed suite, which is one of the major components of the airborne early warning & control (AWAC) system.The Identification of Friend or Foe (IFF) was released by DRDO chief VK Saraswat, who said it was a crucial and critical input in AWAC. He added, “It will be mounted on land systems, fighters and civil planes, aerostats, unmanned air vehicles and medium and long range surface-to-air missiles.”IFF is expected to be carried on all commercial and military flights to make it easy to identify nearby aircraft as friendly or hostile. There is a need for a large number of such systems by the armed forces for ground, surface and airborne applications.Saraswat said, “‘Private enterprise has been given more opportunities in this decade to produce and develop various equipment and products by way of co-partnering in the endeavor of increasing self-reliance in the defence sector.”
