In 1971, India asked an IIT Delhi engineer to build its own sonar; decades later, his MIMO invention transformed 4G, 5G and Wi-Fi

In 1971, a naval officer was asked to solve a problem that India could not simply buy its way out of. The Indian Navy needed better anti-submarine sonar, but access to advanced foreign systems was restricted.

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