India Radar, Sensors and Electronic Warfare Archive

crixus · Apr 29, 2021

Zapper said:
Tonbo's T-Rex long-range reconnaissance and observation system deployed with IA

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How good they are when compared to western similar products

Nilgiri · Apr 29, 2021

crixus said:
How good they are when compared to western similar products

Seeing how IA selects and imports foreign maal first thing, I think these should be at least as good?

Tonbo has won a number of export orders from western countries (and others) if I'm not mistaken too.

Tonbo wins over N Africa, EU with $25m defence gear order

Startup will make and deploy night vision, thermal imaging & long-range surveillance systems, though it needs to tie up with local integrators to deploy it at client locations

economictimes.indiatimes.com

crixus · Apr 29, 2021

Nilgiri said:
Seeing how IA selects and imports foreign maal first thing, I think these should be at least as good?

Tonbo has won a number of export orders from western countries (and others) if I'm not mistaken too.

Tonbo wins over N Africa, EU with $25m defence gear order

Startup will make and deploy night vision, thermal imaging & long-range surveillance systems, though it needs to tie up with local integrators to deploy it at client locations

economictimes.indiatimes.com

My question was specific to T-rex , I know some of their products with fusion of day and thremal imager are world class

Zapper · Apr 29, 2021

crixus said:
How good they are when compared to western similar products

The T-rex has been deployed at multiple theatres by IA and paramilitaries including LoC, Rajasthan and most recently Ladakh. IA doesn't really comment on the effectiveness of the systems they induct but given how they've deployed on multiple fronts...I assume it must be pretty good

Zapper · Apr 29, 2021

Tonbo's portable ultra long range multisensor surveillance system with HD thermal output is being pitched to ITBP...hopefully they procure some for the chinese border

Zapper · Apr 29, 2021

Tonbo's EK smart thermal weapon sight with wired display

Not to mention Tonbo's Arjun weapons sight which IA and CRPF ordered quite a lot

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1240613798379020288

crixus · Apr 29, 2021

Zapper said:
Tonbo's portable ultra long range multisensor surveillance system with HD thermal output is being pitched to ITBP...hopefully they procure some for the chinese border

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They should tether it with some drone to cover a very very large area, complete passive surveillance :

like the below one

crixus · Apr 29, 2021

@Zapper seems like you know a lot about Tonbo imaging

Zapper · Apr 29, 2021

crixus said:
They should tether it with some drone to cover a very very large area, complete passive surveillance :

like the below one

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Our drone scene is only recently picking up with IA placing a $20mn order for IdeaForge's Switch UAV while drone swarms have been displayed during a recent event...unsure who the manufacturer of those. We're looking good with Tonbo but more similar companies need to come up and able meet IA's stringent requirements. The easiest way to get into IA's books is to first sell their systems to foreign units...exactly what both Bangalore's Tonbo and Lucknow's MKU did

Integrating vision systems and sights to drones isn't really a big issue...infact Tonbo also develops aerial systems

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Their hummingbird 3500 system is in specific to UAVs. It should only be a software patch to integrate it with ground systems

crixus said:
@Zapper seems like you know a lot about Tonbo imaging

Just open source...I saw on reddit an Israeli unit sporting Tonbo sights which really got me interested in Tonbo's work. That post has been taken down for some reason or maybe I couldn't find it

Bengaluru tech gives US, Israeli weapons eyes

https://www.livemint.com/companies/...s-us-israeli-weapons-eyes-11574009242060.html

Tonbo Imaging bags $100mn deal to provide night vision to Peruvian Army

https://economictimes.indiatimes.co...ion-to-peruvian-army/articleshow/54804638.cms

crixus · Apr 29, 2021

Zapper said:
Our drone scene is only recently picking up with IA placing a $20mn order for IdeaForge's Switch UAV while drone swarms have been displayed during a recent event...unsure who the manufacturer of those. We're looking good with Tonbo but more similar companies need to come up and able meet IA's stringent requirements. The easiest way to get into IA's books is to first sell their systems to foreign units...exactly what both Bangalore's Tonbo and Lucknow's MKU did

Integrating vision systems and sights to drones isn't really a big issue...infact Tonbo also develops aerial systems

View attachment 19407

Their hummingbird 3500 system is in specific to UAVs. It should only be a software patch to integrate it with ground systems

Just open source...I saw on reddit an Israeli unit sporting Tonbo sights which really got me interested in Tonbo's work. That post has been taken down for some reason

Bengaluru tech gives US, Israeli weapons eyes
https://www.livemint.com/companies/...s-us-israeli-weapons-eyes-11574009242060.html

Tonbo Imaging bags $100mn deal to provide night vision to Peruvian Army

https://economictimes.indiatimes.co...ion-to-peruvian-army/articleshow/54804638.cms

There is one more Delhi based start up Cron systems, they are doing some decent work in border management too

Nilgiri · May 4, 2021

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1389544601250254851

Raptor · May 8, 2021

Zapper said:
Tonbo's portable ultra long range multisensor surveillance system with HD thermal output is being pitched to ITBP...hopefully they procure some for the chinese border

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Give them funds and they can develop EOTS DAS for AMCA