October 10,
2008: India has completed a program that combines radar data from all military
and civilian aircraft tracking radars in southern India. This is done using
software that merges all the tracing information, eliminating duplication and
showing on one screen everything in the air from the Bay of Bengal to the
Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean and northern Sri Lanka.
More and
more nations are adopting this technology, which not only makes air travel
safer, but provides an important source of intelligence for the armed forces
and police.
