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Headquarters CDRD acts as the Command and Control arm of the CDRD headed by a Director General equivalent to a Major General and assisted by staff consisting of a Deputy Director General and Staff Officers. The CDRD is organized into four main Divisions with the Technical & Material Division
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Systems, WS30 stabilized weapon system for naval vessels developed in cooperation with EM Digital. The CDRD has also developed numerous simulators for training including realistic flight simulator, flight control simulator, field artillery simulator, simulators for jungle lane firing etc. CDRD also
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consisting of a group of army personnel working together with engineering faculties of various universities. These allowed to both disrupt the signals as well as detect and detonate mines planted by the LTTE. known as the K3 Jammer the initial manpack version was effective up to a modest 100m and
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Most of CDRD's early projects involved the modification of the military's existing equipment such as the development of rugged RA 400 Cougar Fist
Microphone developed for Cougar Radios by the CDRD and also modified to be used with the PRC 1077 VHF Tactical Radios. However, since then the CDRD has
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However the CDRD is constrained by the lack of resources including funding, facilities and researchers and as of 2018 only 8 of 15 wings are active and several projects have been suspended due to the lack of resources.
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later K3V vehicular version was subsequently used by the army when providing security to VIPs. CDRD later developed mobile phone jammers for prisons as well as GPS jammers and satellite phone jammers.
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which were often detonated wirelessly and the Sri Lankan government was finding it hard to procure enough jammers from international markets. Thus the CDRD was founded in 2006 at the
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being responsible for conducting research and development. The
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