Intelligence, Surveillance, Targeting Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) System


The Intelligence, Surveillance, Targeting Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) system is a manned airborne multi-role mission aircraft capable of performing ISR and targeting missions for defence and security forces.

Sensor Suite:

  • High resolution multispectral (EO-IR) Long Range Oblique Photography (LOROP) sensor
  • Long range Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR-GMTI system) with sub-metric resolutions
  • All-weather day and night capabilities for collecting tactical and strategic geospatial intelligence from large stand-off ranges

Mission Suite

  • Software application clusters and technology stack deployed on state-of-the-art hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) based on high-performance rugged enterprise-level hardware
  • Near-real time geo-spatial data processing, fusion and exploitation of sensor products
  • Reconfigurable dual display work-station consoles for 06 onboard operators for efficient and synergized HMI for ISTAR mission planning and operations
  • AI/ML/DL powered automated work-flows to handle the enormous area coverage rates and high spatial resolution of the aerial imaging sensors

Data link

  • High throughput secure line-of-sight data links, satcom data link and tactical radio links for integration with other networks and agents
  • Network centric warfare with near real-time dissemination of actionable intelligence for accelerated sensor-to-shooter cycle
  • Force multiplier with teaming of multiple potent ISTAR platforms and their collaboration with extended ground-based intelligence exploitation stations

Airborne Platform

  • High altitude, long endurance Special Mission Aircraft (SMA) based on business class jet, with Self Protection Suite

Technologies used

Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) on enterprise-level hardware for airborne operation, long range high resolution SAR-GMTI system, multispectral (EO-IR) LOROP sensor, geo-spatial intelligence processing and exploitation suite, high data-rate LoS data-links, satcom data-links, onboard mission communications suite.