Address: Chandrayangutta Lines, Hyderabad 500 005, Andhra Pradesh, India
Telephone: Unlisted
Fax: 040-249976
Telex: 0425-6702
E-mail: root@drdlrl.drdo.com
Director: Mr. N. Divakar
Subordinate to: Defense Research & Development Organization (DRDO), Ministry of Defense
Primary Function: Design and development of radar and communication systems.
Description: The Defense Electronics Research Laboratory (DERL) was established in 1962 to work on the design and development of communications and radar systems.
Activities: The DERL built a ground-based missile guidance system in the 1970s. Other activities include:
- Providing "electronic support" for DRDO's Integrated Guided Missile Development Program.
- Designing and developing "phased array monopulse identification friend or foe" system in conjunction with the Rajendra phased array radar for the Akash surface-to-air missile.
- Designing and developing "components, antennas, and sub-systems for HF [high-frequency], to microwave, and millimetric wave frequencies.
Key Sources:
Defence Research & Development Organization, "Defence Electronics Research Laboratory," <http://www.drdo.org/labs/electronics/dlrl/index.shtml>; Dr. N.C. Birla and B.S. Murthy, eds., "Seekers, Antennas, Pyrosystems, Devices and Electronic Subsystems," Indian Defence Technology: Missile Systems (DRDO, Ministry of Defence, December 1998), pp. 187-188.
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