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NSG Looking for Cutting Edge Equipment for Urban Counter Terror Operations

2009-01-18 National Security Guard (NSG) has identified key high-end equipment required to better deal with urban terror situations and has already begun the process to acquire cutting edge new technology. The NSG's shopping list includes high end gadgets like body-worn video and audio bugs, Mini Remotely Operated Vehicles and Real Time X-Ray Viewing System.

While NSG officials maintained that the force keeps on acquiring such equipment from time to time, sources said this time the acquisition of such gadgets was a direct fallout of the 26/11 debriefing where senior NSG Black Cats highlighted operational handicaps they faced on account of not having critical equipment during their 60-hour-long operations in Mumbai's terror theatres.

Learning from the Mumbai experience, the NSG is scouting for video bugs which essentially are body-worn colour cameras with a transmitter and are designed to look like either a spectacle or a standard tie-pin and have a minimum pick-up range of 10 feet and minimum transmission range of 200 metres. The commando force also wants to procure equipment capable of re-transmitting the signal transmitted by a video bug at a different frequency and higher power output to enhance the working range. The force is looking to procure miniature digital audio transmitters having built-in microphones and antennae. Having such video and audio bugs, said sources, would enable Black Cats to capture and transmit real-time "live" images and sounds during an ongoing operation.

In addition, the NSG is looking to procure a Real Time X-ray viewing system which can help in real-time measurement of objects located behind obstructions like walls. "What we are looking for is an x-ray system which is compact, light-weight and easy to set-up, even from a remote location," an official said. Also on the shopping list is a Mini Remotely Operated Vehicle (MROV) which can be launched to carry out surveillance inside "buildings and installations", "aircraft and trains", "passenger terminals", "on ferries and ships" and "under the vehicles". "The kind of MROV we are looking for should have a climbing capability of stairs and slopes at 45 degrees, should have a video colour camera, night-vision capability and modular weapon mounting system," an official said.

Sources said that proposals to procure these equipment have been lying in cold-storage for years and have finally seen the light of the day now. The NSG has already come out with detailed technical specifications for all these devices and is in the process of floating tenders.

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