The prime minister of India is set to get a brand new Air India One aircraft, much like
US President Barack Obama's Air Force One.
The Indian prime minister, Modi, has been traveling on an aging Boeing 747 so far.. Now Air India One aircraft will be upgraded
to a state-of-the art Boeing 777 300.
Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar, has finalize the deal to buy two of these aircrafts.
The Boeing 777 300 will be customized to include state of art defense systems.
Here are 5 feature that make this a highly secure aircraft
Radars can track a target when, the radiations emitted from radars, are reflected back from
the surface of the aircraft .This aircraft is made of, special radar-absorbing metal.
It makes the aircraft less detectable by enemy radars, and hence is harder to target by air
to air or surface to air missile.
In order to ensure that the aircraft controls are not subjected to any hacking there is
an Intruder Detection System (IDS). The system inspects all inbound and outbound network
activities and identifies suspicious patterns, that may indicate a network or system attack
from someone attempting to compromise a system.
This system is active all the time ,even when the aircraft is not in flight,that is, it
monitors the aircraft 24/7.
A Missile Approach Warning system is part of the avionics package on Air India One.
Sensor detect attacking missiles. Its automatic warning cues the pilot to make a defensive
maneuver, and deploy the available countermeasures to disrupt missile .
Apart from Missile Approach Warning system, a Radar Warning System is also present in
Air-India One. If Air India One gets missile lock from a enemy aircraft, it will give a
aural warning in the cockpit similar to fighter aircraft.
Chaff ,and flares are passive, defensive countermeasures deployed by Air India One. Their purpose is
to confuse and divert radar-guided, or infrared-guided anti-aircraft missiles.
Modern chaff, is composed of millions of tiny aluminum or zinc coated fibers stored on-board
the aircraft in tubes. When an aircraft is threatened by radar tracking missiles, the aircraft eject the chaff .
The chaff disperse into a decoy cloud of metallic material with
a radar signature much larger than the aircraft itself.
Distracted by the abrupt appearance of this more radar-reflective target, the tracking mechanism of the approaching anti-aircraft
missile locks onto the chaff cloud, instead, and the missile is diverted from actual target.
Chemical flares are used to distract heat-seeking missiles.
Most are magnesium pellets ejected from tubes to ignite behind the aircraft. These flares burn at temperatures above 2,000
degrees Fahrenheit, hotter than the jet engine nozzles or exhaust and exhibit large amounts
of infrared light. Confronted by these more conspicuous bursts of infrared energy, infrared-seeking
missiles are decoyed away from the targeted aircraft to pursue the flares instead.
Advanced electronic warfare capabilities enable the Air India One to locate and track incoming
hostile missile & jam there guidance system. Air-India One is capable of emission of radio
frequency signals to interfere with the operation of a enemy radar by saturating its receiver
with noise or false information.