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NEW DELHI: In a determination aimed astatine strengthening the physics warfare capabilities of the IAF's workhorse combatant jets, the defence ministry has issued a petition for connection (RFP) to upgrade the Su-30MKI fighters with a state-of-the-art anti-jamming, anti-spoofing multi-constellation planetary positioning strategy (GPS) antenna.Jamming and spoofing are portion of physics warfare. Under jamming, the awesome is stopped oregon overpowered from reaching the receiver, and spoofing is the process by which a incorrect awesome is fed to instrumentality the receiver.The antenna upgrade is portion of the wider "Super Sukhoi" modernisation programme. The IAF presently operates astir 258 Su-30MKI combatant craft — the backbone of the IAF's combat fleet.The upgrade is aimed astatine enhancing the capableness and scope of the existing Su-30MKI with a caller multi-constellation antenna.
The antenna volition beryllium compatible to run nether aggregate outer navigation constellations simultaneously, including India's ain NaVIC system, GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, and the GAGAN satellite-based augmentation system.The system, according to the RFP, is required to run crossed the afloat formation envelope of the Su-30MKI, functioning astatine altitudes up to 21 km, speeds up to Mach 1.5 and accelerations ranging from -2g to 9g.
According to the RFP, 300 antenna systems on with 50 field-level testers and 10 base-level testers are to beryllium delivered. The full task is to beryllium completed wrong 24 months of declaration signing. The RFP bids indispensable beryllium submitted online by June 22, 2026, with the method bid opening scheduled for the pursuing day.
