Indian defence scientists are in the process of developing futuristic high power laser weapons, e-bombs as powerful as 1,000 lightning strikes, and computers that can be worn by soldiers.
According to Dr V.K. Saraswat, scientific adviser to the defence minister, who was delivering a lecture on 'strategic electronics' at the inaugural session of the 22nd annual conference of Indian Nuclear Society here on Thursday, work is going on high power laser weapons that could provide India a distinctive defence advantage by numbing the enemy targets.
Since other nations do not share these technologies, India is working on indigenous systems, he said. About the e-bomb, he said it will produce electrical impulses in terawatt range equivalent to 10 to 1000 lightning strikes.
Dr Saraswat said we can now detect even satellites and added research is on to improve the radar detection range from 500 km to about 3000 km.
Work is also going on an array of radars to help scan electronically, battlefield surveillance Doppler radars, wall radars that can see what is hidden behind a structure, and antennas that cannot be seen are also in the pipeline.
“We hope to equip our soldiers with wearable computers providing them night fighting capabilities, health monitoring and personal area communication, besides GIS.
“We are equipped to provide solution to almost every platform, whether ground based or air based,” he said.
Referring to exo-atmospheric kill vehicles, Dr Saraswat pointed out that defence scientists are developing 600-sq km radius satellite systems.