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The Indian Shivati ​​Artillery Radar reported on March 2. According to "India Today", Indian authorities have signed a contract with Armenia to purchase weapons and equipment worth up to INR 2.8 billion. According to the contract, India will provide Armenia with four "Shivati" artillery positioning radars, equivalent to $ 10 million, which is arguably the most expensive equipment currently exported by India. At present, the world's most popular weapon positioning radar SLC2 series occupies more than half of similar markets. The so-called artillery positioning radar is a necessary equipment for current artillery units (including various artillery, rocket launchers and short-range missile units). It can use the attack trajectory of the shell to measure the position of the opponent's artillery position, so as to guide the own artillery to counterattack before the shell landed. Due to the extremely high positioning accuracy required, relatively expensive passive / active phased array technology is often used. It is unimaginable that India will use it to provide intelligence support for rocket launchers. The radar is mainly developed from India's domestic "Adachi" air defense missile system "Lajindra" multifunctional passive phased array radar. According to the Indian side, the radar mainly provides data support for the BM21 Hail, cyclone rocket launcher and domestic Pinaka rocket launcher. India also began equipping such "precision" equipment in 2017. However, neither of these weapons is a rapid-reaction weapon, so India's role in equipping radar also confuses the outside world. Indian media said Armenia praised the radar's performance. India plans to export Arjun tanks, but no one notices the export of this military equipment, which is also the result of India's nearly 20 years of efforts. Indian media also praised this as a breakthrough in Indian equipment exports. In fact, India has never given up exporting its domestic military equipment in recent years. The equipment the company plans to export covers everything from the Arjun tank to the LCA "Brilliance" fighter, and currently covers almost all domestic equipment in India, including even its British Saas rifle. Despite India's efforts in public relations, frequent participation in well-known overseas air shows, and "looking for buyers" to purchase its domestic equipment, the embarrassing fact that Indian weapons are difficult to export remains difficult to conceal. Localization rates for Indian equipment are generally low. There are two important reasons for the difficulty in exporting Indian equipment. First, the device localization rate is relatively low. The localization rate of Arjun tanks and LCA fighters is even lower than 50%. Especially for electronic equipment, this is a serious injury that often requires installing equipment from France, Israel, Russia and other countries at the same time. This has led to high costs for domestic weapons. Its LCA fighter even reported an export unit price of more than $ 80 million The farce has even reached the packaging export price of the Russian Su 35 heavy fighter. Poor performance and expensive unit prices have discouraged some potential buyers. The second and most important point of the Polaris helicopter crash in Ecuador is that the reliability of Indian domestic equipment has been questioned, especially its aerospace product, which has crashed multiple times. Take the Polaris 5-ton general helicopter as an example. It uses a turboshaft engine produced by the French company Tubomec, which was developed jointly with Germany. It can be said that the lowest quality can be guaranteed. However, seven Polaris helicopters that eventually exported to Ecuador crashed within five years, and a VIP helicopter crashed on the way to meet the president. In addition, the two Polaris helicopters presented to Maldives by India were also returned by the Maldives in 2018. This shows that India is unlikely to export weapons and equipment on a large scale in the short term.

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