[1] Located in Bangalore, Karnataka, India,[2] It is one of the two DRDO laboratories involved in the research and development of airborne electronic warfare and mission avionics systems.
[4] On 1 June 2001, ASIEO became a full-fledged DRDO laboratory and was renamed as Defence Avionics Research Establishment (DARE).
[10] Survivability of military aircraft in the modern combat scenario of sophisticated Air Defence weapon systems is of paramount importance.
Systems developed include versatile Radar Warning Receivers (RWR), podded jammers and integrated EW suites.
The D-29 system serves primarily as a self-protection jammer that will boost survivability, enhance situation awareness and increase mission effectiveness.
DR118 RWRDARE develop a state-of-the-art Digital Radar Warning Receiver DR118 for fighter platforms which offers very good sensitivity, selectivity and wideband instantaneous bandwidth at the same time.
With greater Pulse Density handling capability and lower hardware complexity, power and weight vis-à-vis the predecessor systems, DR118 is an ideal solution for the present and future challenges faced by military aircraft.
TARANG, developed by DARE, intercepts and identifies airborne and ground based acquisition, target tracking and missile guidance radars in multi-octave frequency bands.
The system provides audio and visual warnings in order to alert the pilot against imminent threats and their current state viz.
DARE evolved the system specifications and interface control requirements taking into consideration IAF need for operations and maintenance.
Over one million lines of code were developed adhering to stringent real time constraints and requisite software engineering requirements.
The DCMAWS consists of a set of up to six dual color IR sensors installed on the platform, which samples the space in accordance with the defined spatial coverage and integrated with advanced processor running state-of-the-art clutter rejection and tracking algorithms to declare the oncoming missile threat with a very good false alarm rate.
The system shall detect and declare hostile Radars and missiles, provide related warning to pilot and initiate adequate countermeasures.
The MSWS together with counter measures makes a complete Self Protection Suite (SPS) and has made entry into a number of aircraft programmes.