One year after Operation Sindoor highlighted the growing role of precision long-range firepower in modern warfare, the Indian Army is now working to automate and digitally connect the entire operational chain of land-based kinetic strikes through a new indigenous platform called the Land Vectors Control and Coordination System (LVCCS).
The project is designed to integrate observation, target acquisition, strike planning, fire delivery, and post-strike battle damage assessment into a unified command-and-control architecture for all land-based weapon systems operated by the Army. The initiative reflects the Army’s increasing focus on network-centric warfare, real-time battlefield coordination, and rapid sensor-to-shooter integration.
LVCCS is being developed as a customised regiment-level application capable of interfacing with the Army’s existing Battlefield Surveillance System. Once operational, the system is expected to drastically shorten the time between target detection and strike execution while improving coordination between artillery regiments, missile batteries, rocket forces, loitering munitions, and surveillance platforms across operational sectors.
The development follows the reported success of Operation Sindoor in May 2025, during which Indian artillery units carried out precision strikes against military infrastructure and terrorist camps across the border in Pakistan. The operation demonstrated a major advancement in the Army’s use of precision-guided artillery and rapidly deployable strike systems.
A major highlight of the operation was the deployment of M-777 Ultra-Light Howitzers firing precision-guided munitions in the Jammu and Kashmir sector. It also marked the first known instance of a specialist artillery regiment being airlifted for combat deployment under conditions of strict secrecy during a war-like situation.
The artillery units involved in the operation later received official recognition. Colonel Koshank Lamba, Commanding Officer of 302 Medium Regiment, and Lieutenant Colonel Sushil Bisht, Officer Commanding 1988 (Independent) Medium Battery, were awarded the Vir Chakra for their role in planning and executing precision strikes that reportedly destroyed enemy targets with high accuracy.
LVCCS is expected to become a cornerstone of the Indian Army’s future battlefield digitisation programme. The system will eventually integrate with India’s wider Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence and Interoperability (C4I2) network, the tri-service operational framework being developed to coordinate military activities across land, air, sea, cyber, and space domains.
Under the planned architecture, LVCCS will provide both tactical and technical fire-control capabilities for a broad range of land-based strike assets, including missiles, rockets, guns, howitzers, mortars, and loitering munitions. The objective is to ensure faster and more precise fire delivery while optimising the use of available strike resources against enemy forces.
Military planners envision the system as a centralized digital backbone capable of handling integrated fire planning, deployment management, operational logistics, and battlefield data coordination. It will allow fire-control orders to flow seamlessly from higher command elements to regiment command posts while supporting rapid target corrections, follow-up strikes, and real-time battlefield adjustments during combat operations.
The system is also expected to support theatre-level strike coordination, enabling commanders to conduct simultaneous attacks across multiple operational sectors while dynamically adjusting engagement parameters as battlefield conditions evolve.
One of LVCCS’s most important planned features is the ability to combine targeting data from multiple acquisition sources. These include battlefield surveillance systems, reconnaissance drones, intelligence networks, and command platforms such as the Command Information and Decision Support System (CIDSS).
Crucially, artillery missions will also be capable of using targeting data generated by non-artillery platforms, significantly expanding the Army’s integrated sensor-to-shooter network and improving operational responsiveness.
