Minister of State for Defense Mallipudi Mangapati Pallam Raju, Minister of Communication and Information Technology Andimuthu Raja, Defense Minister Arackaparambil Kurian Antony, Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik and Minister of State for Communications Sachin Pilot.
The gigabyte digital information grid of the Indian Air Force (IAF), AFNET (Air Force Network) went live after Defense Minister Arackaparambil Kurian Antony inaugurated it in New Delhi on Tuesday.
A demonstration of the capabilities of the network was conducted with ‘a practice interception of simulated enemy targets by a pair of MiG-29 fighter aircraft airborne from an advanced airbase in the Punjab sector, neutralizing intruding targets in the western sector’, according to a statement issued by the IAF.
Network Centric Warfare ability was also demonstrated with video feed generation from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and pictures from an AWACS aircraft.
