Bengaluru. Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) and Raddef Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru, have signed an MoU for the joint development, marketing, manufacturing and sales of indigenous Coastal Surveillance Radar (CSR).
The objective of the agreement, announced at Aero India 2025, is to co-operate and support indigenous development and manufacturing of subsystems required for the realisation of equipment/systems in the field of Coastal Surveillance equipment for Defence applications.
Photo caption: Suresh Kumar KV, Director (Marketing), BEL, and Chandrashekar K, CEO & Founder, Raddef Private Limited, exchange the MoU documents at Aero India today.
BEL, a Navratna PSU under the Ministry of Defence, Government of India, enjoys leadership position in the Defence / Strategic Electronics market in India.
BEL is a multi- product, multi-technology, multi-Unit conglomerate which boasts of over 600 products in the areas of Radars & Fire Control systems, Weapon systems, Communication & Network Centric systems, Naval Systems, Electronic Warfare & Avionics, Electro Optics, Anti-submarine Warfare systems, Tank Electronics & Gun Upgrades, Homeland Security, civilian products and Strategic Components.
Some of the areas BEL is focusing as part of its diversification efforts include solutions for Civil Aviation, Unmanned systems, Railway & Metro systems, Network & Cyber Security, Smart City solutions, Space Electronics, Arms & Ammunition and Seekers, Medical Electronics and Artificial Intelligence. BEL is also a CMMi Level 5, ISO As-9100, ISO 27001-2013 (ISMS) certified and CERT-In empaneled agency.
BEL has successfully implemented the Chain of Static Sensors (CSS) for Indian Coast Guard (ICG) for enhancing maritime domain awareness along the 7500 km long Indian coastline. BEL has been providing chain of static sensors as a turn-key solution to ICG which includes supply, installation, commissioning and AMC for a period of 10 years.
Raddef Pvt Ltd was formed with an aim to provide COTS, RF & Microwave products to
Indian and worldwide customers covering Navy, Military, Aerospace, Process Control & Automation, Communication, Test and Measurement Industry.
Raddef designs, develops and manufactures a wide variety of sub-systems for RF and Microwave systems and components for the applications in defence, aerospace, meteorology and communication. Applications include radar, satellite communications, radio communications, telemetry applications, missile guidance systems, mobile radio base stations and air traffic control and communications.
Raddef has been working on the development of various types of radars which typically
spans Ground, Air and Coastal domains. Application areas include Drone Detection,
Surveillance, weather prediction, etc.
