India’s Ministry of Defence on August 26, 2019 inked a contract worth Rs.380 crore with Chennai-based Data Patterns (India) Pvt Ltd under which the latter will supply, install and commission an initial nine X-band Precision Approach Radars (PAR) incorporating active phased-array scanning antennae at Indian Navy and Indian Air Force Air Stations. All installation and commissioning works at the Indian Naval Air Stations is planned for completion by April 2022, and at Indian Air Force Stations by December 2022. Eventually, more than 60 such PARs are due to be ordered by the MoD.
The active phased-array PAR has been under development by Data Patterns since 2010 and it was only at the Aero India 2017 expo in Bengaluru that one caught the first glimpse of this PAR.
Operational since 1985, Data Patterns has to date developed more than 1,000 systems and sub-systems in-house, which include ESM sub-systems for various DRDO-developed ELINT/COMINT suites, as well as for jammers. It has also developed a multi-Bit, wide-band radar warning receiver, IFF Mk.XII transponder with Mode 5 capabilities, plus an active phased-array radar in 205MHz frequency (first of its kind in the world). It has also developed pulse-Doppler weather radars in X and C bands, as well as an X-band Imaging Monopulse RF seeker for the projected Brahmos-NG supersonic multi-role cruise missile in cooperation by the DRDO’s with Hyderabad DRDL lab.
