IAF Deputy Chief Opens Solar Industries’ Chaff Production Facility In Nagpur

In a boost to the Make in India initiative, Indian Air Force Deputy Chief Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit inaugurated the Chaff Plant at Economic Explosives Limited (EEL), Nagpur, on July 31, Solar Industries said in a release.

EEL is a 100 per cent subsidiary of Solar Industries India Limited. Chaff is one of the most widely used and effective expendable electronic countermeasure devices. It is dispensed into the atmosphere to deny radar acquisition, generate false targets, and disrupt tracking by enemy radar.

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Solar has set up the first fully indigenous state-of-the-art production plant at Nagpur. Until now, the country had been fully dependent on imports. Chaff 118, Chaff 50mm, and Chaff 26mm, along with impulse cartridges manufactured at this most advanced facility of the Solar Group, are used in different aircraft such as Jaguar D-II, D-III, MIG29, Mirage 2000, Bison, LCA, Apache, Chinook, Embraer, AWACS, Cth/Ctk, AHWSI, LCH, etc.

The Chaff payloads were developed by EEL with technology support from Defence Laboratory, Jodhpur, under the category of Buy Indian-IDDM (Indigenously Designed, Developed and Manufactured).

EEL has received an airworthiness certificate from the Air Force Inspecting Authorities for the Chaff payloads manufactured in-house, thus paving the way for fitment on aircraft, helicopters, and other airborne platforms. Keeping in view the huge requirement of Chaffs by the Armed Forces, EEL is augmenting its manufacturing capacity, which will be completed in another six months. This is the first modern and advanced technology in the country.

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