THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala State Electronics Development Corporation (Keltron) has bagged an order worth Rs 6 crore from Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL) Kochi, a DRDO lab under the Union Ministry of Defence, for the manufacture and supply of sonar simulators used for the training of the operators of submarines and ships of the Indian Navy. Keltron, clinched the deal after winning a competitive bid with companies such as Bharat Electronics Limited.Designed by NPOL, the electronic simulator with state-of-the-art features meeting international standards, would be manufactured at the Aroor unit of Keltron. NPOL, the defence R&D centre in the field of Naval systems, has taken India to the selected nations club that posses the advanced technology in naval and oceanographic fields and its applications. It has designed and developed several acoustic and electronic gadgets based on these technologies. Sonar technology is used to scan the under water world, just like a radar is used on land and in air. Sonar systems are thus very critical to naval ships and submarines to detect other ships, submarines, torpedoes, underwater missiles, UAV etc approaching them. The current order is for sonar simulator system which will be used at various centres of Indian Navy to train their operators of the sonar systems in the Naval ship submarines. Keltron has already set up an exclusive Sonar Array Production Shop at the Aroor unit which is the only such facility in India where not only the system can be manufactured and tested but the existing imported sonar systems used by Navy can also be repaired.
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