In news- Recently, Carborundum Universal Limited (CUMI)has signed a Licensing Agreement for Transfer of Technology with the DRDO for manufacturing ceramic radomes used in aerospace and missile systems.
What is Ceramic radome technology?
- Ceramic radome is regarded as an essential, state-of-the-art technology for ballistic and tactical missiles and high-performance aircraft.
- Missiles undergo extremely high surface temperatures while travelling through the atmosphere, and while re-entering it from space.
- To withstand those temperatures, radomes located at the tip of a missile are made of ceramic.
- The ceramic radomes have been developed indigenously by Research Centre Imarat (RCI), one of the premier DRDO labs in the Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Missile Complex, which has developed India’s missile arsenal. RCI spearheads R&D in a diverse range of avionics systems for missile and aerospace applications.
- RCI is India’s premier laboratory for carrying out R&D in the technologies of control engineering, inertial navigation, imaging infrared seekers, radio frequency seekers and systems, on-board computers and mission software.
Carborundum Universal(CUMI) Ltd-
- Carborundum Universal Ltd, a part of Murugappa Group, is one of the largest and oldest conglomerates in India.
- It is the leading manufacturer and developer of abrasives, ceramics, refractories, aluminium oxide grains, machine tools, polymers, adhesives and electro minerals in India.
- It has extensive experience in engineering lightweight ceramic ballistic solutions, such as bulletproof vests, using zirconia-toughened alumina and silicon carbide.
- CUMI’s lightweight ceramic materials are also used for providing high levels of ballistic and blast-proof protection for armoured vehicles.
- It is one of India’s first companies to produce the wonder material graphene for aerospace and defence applications. Its cutting-edge composite technology is also used for building unmanned aerial vehicles.
- CUMI, established as a tripartite joint venture in 1954, is a leading materials sciences engineering solutions provider.
Source: Business Standard
