- A heavy-engineering vehicle manufacturer needed an indigenous rugged electronic control system for its 6x6 heavy motor vehicle minefield marking and laying operations
- reducing dependency on foreign-sourced control electronics
Case Studies
Indigenous Control Electronics for Mechanised Minefield Laying
11 Aug 2026An indigenous rugged control system for mechanised minefield laying vehicles.
Overview
ChallengesThe main challenges were
- Minefield laying vehicles operate in demanding field conditions and require precise
- reliable control electronics — building this indigenously meant matching the reliability of imported systems while meeting India's self-reliance requirements for defence platforms
ObjectivesThe system needed to
- Design and deliver a fully indigenous
- rugged control electronics package for the minefield-marking vehicle platform that could match imported-system reliability at meaningful production scale
- not just as a one-off prototype
Solution DeliveredThe solution included
- Dynalog developed a rugged, indigenous electronic control system for the 6x6 heavy motor vehicle minefield marking and laying platform, combining a real-time embedded controller, rugged junction boxes, distance-measuring devices, and a custom cable harness purpose-built for the vehicle's operating conditions
- Every element of the control chain — from the controller's processing hardware to the connectors and harness routing — was engineered from the ground up to withstand sustained vibration, dust, and temperature extremes typical of field minelaying operations, rather than adapting an existing commercial design
- The distance-measuring devices give the system the precision needed to space mine-marking operations accurately as the vehicle moves, while the junction boxes centralise wiring and simplify maintenance in the field
- The system has since been fitted across 56 HMV platforms, running as the core control electronics for minefield-marking operations from 2020 through the ongoing 2025 programme — a genuinely large-scale indigenous deployment rather than a one-off prototype, and a track record that speaks directly to its reliability under real operating conditions
Conclusion
56 platforms and five years of service is real proof that indigenous rugged control electronics can match — and sustain — the reliability defence platforms demand.
