Question: In which of the following city DRDO’s High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL) is located?
a) Pune
b) Ahemdabad
c) Jodhpur
d) None of these
Answer: (a)
Related Facts:-
- The DRDO’s Defence Laboratory Jodhpur (DLJ) has developed an Advanced Chaff Technology for IAF fighter aircrafts.
- The technology will be used to safeguard fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) against hostile radar threats.
- The DRDO’s DLJ has developed this advanced chaff material in collaboration with High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL), Pune.
- This is known by the name abd chaff cartridge-118/I, and capable of meeting qualitative requirements of the IAF.
- IAF has started the process of induction of this technology after completion of successful user trials.
- The Advanced Chaff Technology is an electronic countermeasure technology that militaries worldwide use to safeguard their assets, like naval vessels and aircraft.
- It protects the assets from radar and radio frequency.
- The technology has been developed months after the DRDO developed a similar technology in three variants for Navy ships to protect them from missile attacks.
- The Indian Navy had conducted trials of all three variants in the Arabian Sea on Indian Naval Ship and found the performance satisfactory.
- The Navy vessels use chaff rockets that are deployed in the air. These act as multiple targets for missile guidance system.
- The importance of this (advanced chaff) technology lies in the fact that very less quantity of chaff material deployed in the air acts as decoy to deflect enemy’s missiles for ensuring safety of the fighter aircraft.