In the Uttar Pradesh city of Jhansi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi handed over an advanced electronic warfare system known as ‘Shakti’ to the Navy on 19 November 2021.
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Shakti is designed to intercept, detect, classify, identify, and jam both traditional and modern radars. Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) built it for the Navy’s capital warships.
The Prime Minister also presented the Chief of the Naval Staff with a miniature replica of the Shakti EW System at Jhansi Fort as part of the three-day ‘Raksha Samarpan Parv,’ .
Shakti will improve the navy’s electronic intelligence capability for early warning, ship defense against missile assault, marine domain awareness, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, and assure electronic dominance in maritime warfare, according to the announcement made at the ceremony.