Indian Navy started largest combat exercise with dedicated satellite

Indian Navy started largest combat exercise with both the western and eastern fleets amassing in the Bay of Bengal for intensive combat manoeuvres. It includes over 50 warships, including aircraft carrier INS Viraat and nuclear submarine INS Chakra, as well as fighters, helicopters and drones etc.

This month long exercise is being held under the gaze of India's first dedicated Military Satellite G-SAT 7 which is also known as Rukmini. 

This geostationary naval communication and surveillance satellite, launched in August last year, is beaming signals from its UHF, S, Ku and C-band transponders to network all Indian warships, submarines and aircraft with operational centres ashore through high-speed encrypted data-links.

Important to note :

The satellite is capable of surveying and communicate will the network of all Indian warships, submarines and aircrafts and have a 2000 nautical mile footprint over the critical Indian Ocean region.

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