The Swathi Weapon Locating Radar (WLR) is a mobile artillery locating phased array radar developed by India.[3] This counter-battery radar is designed to detect and track incoming artillery and rocket fire to determine the point of origin for Counter-battery fire.
The WLR has been jointly developed by DRDO's Bangalore based laboratory, LRDE and the Government owned Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL). The sub-systems have been fabricated by BEL based on the DRDO designs and delivered to LRDE for integration.[
It was deployed in J&K on LOC. After it's deployment, there is much larger dec in the cross borders firing. Now army can get all the details of post from where firing is being carried out, it's trajectory, direction, distance, angle etc. Now there is very much less incidents of heavy firing from opponents. It's has its importance at nights also when Pakistani army tried to cross some of its militants. If you see the news regularly, then you had now rarely seen any news of heavy cross border firing.
