bengaluru bengalurubased alpha design technologies limited adtl has signed an order to supply 400 indigenously made softwaredefined radios sdrs to be fitted on the tanks operated by the indian army in forward areasindian army has taken a giant step in ordering 400 armoured fighting vehicle afv sdrs for their tank fleet we have already signed the contract and manufacturing is in process we have also offered our manpack sdrs for meeting requirements of indian soldiers and theyve already been evaluated by the army recently col retd hs shankar cmd adtl told toithe sdrs as per the contract under armys emergency procurement are for all tank platforms earlier the firm which is backed by adani group had manufactured and supplied 5000 combat net radios cnrs an older version of communication equipment for tanksdefence forces world over are changing over their tactical communication systems and equipment from conventional analog or semidigital fixed frequency data for different versions in separate bands of frequencies to single allinone radios based on software algorithms for working over complete bands of frequencies including satellite communication bands the current trend is to go for sdr which works on embedded softwareoriented highend algorithmsbased waveforms equipped with additional features such as large hopping rate encryption in antijamming voice data video ip and mobile adhoc network etc shankar saidpointing out that indian industries such as bharat electronics limited bel adtl and drdo have been working on such technologies for many years shankar said while the navy has procured sdrs from drdobel adtl has been working to meet the needs of the army and indian air force iaf for more than a decadewith an eye on the future adtl recently achieved interoperability of its sdr with that of another firm being used by iaf although it has no orders yet from the iaf the technology adtl says demonstrates an edge when it comes to working with radios having legacy technologies in use and can be a game changer for the global market alsowith development of interoperability features adtl is also working together with elbitisrael to tap the export potential for such systemsas a technologydriven rd and production firm weve put in considerable effort through our more than 30 young software and firmware teams of experts we recently achieved a breakthrough and offered our equipment to the army and iaf to meet tactical communication systems needs shankar explained