IAF Maintenance Command develops satellite-based real time aircraft tracking system

New Delhi, July 21: The Indian Air Force's Maintenance Command has created a satellite-based real-time aircraft monitoring system that can obtain information about an aircraft's whereabouts, according to a senior official on Thursday.

Air Marshal Vibhas Pande, Air Officer Commanding in Chief (AOC-in-C), Maintenance Command stationed here, told reporters that the aircraft monitoring system will be adopted once the last experiment in the eastern sector was completed.

"One of the Base Repair Depots (BRD) under the aegis of the Air Force's Maintenance Command has indigenously developed a real time aircraft tracking system, wherein the Air Force can get an update on the location of a flying aircraft every 30 seconds," he explained.

According to Air Marshal Pande, the tracking technology is satellite-based and can follow an aircraft's course.

The final testing of the aircraft tracking system is now underway in the eastern sector, and once finished, modifications will be installed in all aircraft, according to him.

"Trials in other sectors are over," he remarked.

Air Marshal Pande also discussed the Maintenance Command's many efforts and attempts to improve the IAF's maintenance and operational readiness.