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<h2 id="industry-collaboration">Industry collaboration</h2>
<p>Defence Laboratory supported Economic Explosives Limited in setting up an advanced technology plant that would reduce reliance on imports while producing 118 mm, 50 mm, and 26 mm <a href="/facts/Chaff_(countermeasure)/V8TAMysf">Chaff</a> payloads for <a href="/facts/Dassault_Mirage_2000/qBkVyEJv">Dassault Mirage 2000</a>, <a href="/facts/Mikoyan_MiG-29/3XfCqsJU">Mikoyan MiG-29</a>, <a href="/facts/SEPECAT_Jaguar/lUhcRt8G">SEPECAT Jaguar</a>, and all helicopters in use by the armed forces. On 4 August 2024, Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, Deputy Chief of Air Staff, officially opened the manufacturing plant.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> 
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<h2 id="technology-transfers">Technology transfers</h2>
<p>In 2024, DRDO <a href="/facts/Technology_transfer/PVLwHDq1">transferred the technology</a> for the Microwave Obscurant Chaff (MOC), which was developed by Defence Laboratory, to the Indian Navy.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> The MOC conceals <a href="/facts/Radar/jk9BTbFA">radar</a> signals and generates a <a href="/facts/Microwave/HmVSN31Y">microwave</a> shield around platforms and assets, which reduces detection by radars.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
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<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Deputy Air Chief inaugurates chaff manufacturing plant, to reduce import dependence". The Economic Times. 4 August 2024. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 6 August 2024. <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/deputy-air-chief-inaugurates-chaff-manufacturing-plant-to-reduce-import-dependence/articleshow/112267626.cms?from=mdr" target="_blank">https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/deputy-air-chief-inaugurates-chaff-manufacturing-plant-to-reduce-import-dependence/articleshow/112267626.cms?from=mdr</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>PTI (26 June 2024). "Indian Navy gets niche DRDO technology that obscures radar signals". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 19 November 2024. <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/indian-navy-gets-niche-drdo-technology-that-obscures-radar-signals-3081986" target="_blank">https://www.deccanherald.com/india/indian-navy-gets-niche-drdo-technology-that-obscures-radar-signals-3081986</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>PTI (26 June 2024). "Indian Navy gets niche DRDO technology that obscures radar signals". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 19 November 2024. <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/indian-navy-gets-niche-drdo-technology-that-obscures-radar-signals-3081986" target="_blank">https://www.deccanherald.com/india/indian-navy-gets-niche-drdo-technology-that-obscures-radar-signals-3081986</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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