The Leh-based Fire and Fury Corps made the announcement on Twitter. Image courtesy: @firefurycorps
In a notable achievement, the Indian Army activated a satellite-based internet service on the Siachen Glacier, the world’s highest battlefield.
The Leh-based Fire and Fury Corps, which handles military operations along Kargil-Leh and secures the border with China and Pakistan, tweeted:
This comes on the same day that the Indian Army said it had called on the homegrown defense industry to provide critical defense equipment for contingency procurement, in line with its commitment to “fight future wars with homegrown solutions”.
Let’s take a closer look:
Why is this a big deal?
Because of the inherent difficulties in providing services in remote and mountainous areas.
acc Daily Excelsior, While China has stepped up communications in remote villages on its side, India has fallen behind in some areas – although the current government has done much to catch up.
acc the times of india, Bharat Broadband Network Limited (BBNL) is the Internet Service Provider for the Army in Siachen, located in the eastern Karakorum Mountains in the Himalayas.
BBNL has also implemented the BharatNet project, which aims to provide satellite-based internet connectivity to around 7,000 Gram panchayats and remote areas without access to fiber-optic internet, according to the report.
The project aims to cover 7,000 sites from four satellite gateways with two high throughput (HTS) satellites. Around 4,000 grams of panchayats have been commissioned under the project so far, according to the report.
acc Daily Excelsior, Some private companies provide various satellite internet services to the Indian Army in sensitive locations in border areas such as East Ladakh.
Hughes Communications India, which has partnered with ISRO to use the Indian Space Agency’s Gsat-11 and Gsat-29 satellites and recently announced the commercial launch of India’s first high-throughput satellite broadband (HTS) service, provides satellite-based Connectivity for the Indian Army along the Chinese border, including in the Galwan region, the report reveals.
Indian Army shares links for RFPs
The Indian Army has focused on many indigenous solutions to meet their diverse needs and recently held a seminar on logistics and discussed ways to make the system self-sufficient.
Links were also shared in a number of tweets for details on Request for Proposals (RFPs).
“In line with its commitment to fighting the future wars with indigenous solutions, #IndianArmy invites the Indian Defense Industry to offer critical defense equipment for contingency procurement. #IndianArmy #InStrideWithTheFuture,” the Army tweeted.
The process is based on “compressed timelines where the procurement window for Indian industry is open for six months and the industry is expected to deliver the equipment within a year of contract signing,” it said.
Procurement cases are based on “open tender requests,” the microblogging site said.
“Proposals will be made for weapons, missiles, drones, counter-drones, loiter munitions, communications and optical systems, special vehicles, engineering equipment and alternative energy resources,” read another tweet.
“The government is striving to create a robust, secure, fast and ‘Aatmanirbhar’ logistics system to effectively deal with future security challenges and lead the country to greater heights,” Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said at the event.
In June, the Defense Acquisition Council approved Armed Forces capital raising proposals of ₹76,390 crore in the Buy (Indian), Buy and Manufacture (Indian) and Buy (Indian-IDDM) categories. Mint.
With contributions from agencies
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