Weapon Locating Radar

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The Weapon Locating Radar (WLR) is a artillery locating Phased array radar being developed by India. The development of the WLR is being carried out by the DRDO, with its Bangalore based LRDE laborotary being the primary designer. The Government owned Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) also participating in the design and development of the system. BEL will manufacture the radar once it is accepted by the Indian Army.

Presently, user trials are being conducted, after which the WLR will enter service in the Indian Army^{[citation needed]}.

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• WLR Poster from DRDO
• Picture of the WLR from Aero India-2003.
• "Manufacturing of Weapon Locating Radar", Sainik Samachar, Ministry of Defence, India, 15 June 2002. Retrieved on 2008-01-23. "The development of this vehicle mounted radar is based on the technologies developed for Rajendra radar. The cost of the project is Rs 20 crore. The probable date of completion of the project is 40 months. Induction into the Army may take another 12 months." 
• Staff Reporter. "Weapon locating radar in final evaluation stage", The Hindu, 21 December 2005. Retrieved on 2008-01-23. "Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE) and Bharat Electronics Limited are in the process of developing a weapon-locating radar, similar to the phased array Rajendra radar system, customized for airborne and ground defence systems." 
• Pranab Dhal Samanta. "India can now procure weapon-locating radars", The Hindu, 29 September 2001. Retrieved on 2008-01-23. 
• Raytheon Press Release. "India Signs Agreement to Buy Firefinder Weapon Locating Radar", PRNewswire, 19 April 2002. Retrieved on 2008-01-23. 
• "India developing weapon locating radar", Bangalore: Defence India, 20 December 2005. Retrieved on 2008-01-23. ""It (weapon locating radar) is in the final stage of evaluation. Once evaluation is complete, we will deliver it to armed forces," chairman and managing director of BEL, Y Gopala Rao, told reporters." 
• "India acquires 12 contracted Weapon Locating Radars", Indo-Asian News Service, 2 May 2007. Retrieved on 2008-01-23. 
• Girja Shankar Kaura. "Weapon-locating radars for India soon", The Tribune, 18 February 2002. Retrieved on 2008-01-23. "The absence of WLRs was felt greatly by the Indian Army during the Kargil conflict with Pakistan in 1999. While Pakistan possessed the earlier version of the AN/TPQ, India had the inventory of British Cymbeline mortar detecting radars, which were not very helpful as the system is useful for detecting shells from a high angle." 
• "India develops weapon-locating radar", PIB Press Release, December 13, 2004. Retrieved on 2008-01-23. "India has developed a weapon-locating radar (WLR) similar to the AN/TPQ-37 of the US at a cost of Rs.260 million ($49 million), Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee told the Lok Sabha Dec 9." 
• Bharat Verma. "How DRDO failed India's military", Rediff News India, January 15, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-01-23. "DRDO scuttled a contract that was on the verge of being signed by India in 1997 for the import of a Weapon Locating Radar as the latter promised to produce it indigenously within two years." 
• "India to test long-range Agni missile next year", India Digest, Indian Embassy, Washington D.C., 15 January 2004. Retrieved on 2008-01-23. "DRDO's weapon-locating radar would be in competition to fill the Indian Army's need for 40-50 such systems." 
• "BEL Weapon Locating Radars", What Is India News Service, December 2006. Retrieved on 2008-01-23.