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Chemical Warfare Agents (CWAs) are man-made highly toxic chemicals that act rapidly on exposure and sometimes lethal even at low levels. Ion Mobility Spectrometry (IMS) based detectors are used to detect these CWAs.
The portable system has a Twin tube IMS detector, called Automatic Chemical Agent Detection and Alarm(ACADA) is an advanced system for simultaneous detection of all CWAs as well as Toxic Industrial Chemicals (TICs) and can be used for continuous monitoring. ACADA contains two highly sensitive IMS cells for continuous detection and simultaneous monitoring.
This is a fixed point man portable CWA detector with battery and can also be mounted on a vehicle. It has provision of Audio & Visual alarm. Detector has a Remote alarm unit for receiving data at the central monitoring station. It can detect very low concentrations of the agents within a minute.
The detector comes with a pre programmed chemical data library, which is expandable and can be updated based on the user’s requirements.
ACADA is designed and developed by Defence Research & Development Establishment (DRDE), Gwalior.
The Indian Army has signed a contract on 25 February 2025 for procurement of 223 ACADA systems with L&T Ltd at a cost of Rs 80.43 Cr, under the Buy Indian (IDDM) category.
This will give a significant boost to the GoI’s Atamnirbharta drive since more than 80% of the components and sub-systems of the equipment will be sourced locally.
