India approves plan to build Awacs

[P.A.F]

http://www.dawn.com/2004/09/10/top11.htm

NEW DELHI, Sep 9: India has given the green light for its military scientists to build an indigenous Airborne Warning and Control System (Awacs) to be completed in seven years at a cost of 18 billion rupees.

The decision was taken at a meeting on Thursday of the Cabinet Committee on Security, headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a report said. "The Defence Research and Development Organisation and Indian Air Force will jointly cooperate in the development of the Awacs system," Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters after the meeting.

The deal follows the signing last October by India of a 1.1 billion dollar deal for three Phalcon airborne early warning radar systems with Israel and Russia. -AFP

 

[india2020]

India has developed and identified lots of new technologies while developing the LCA and also with the past experience with the AVRO,the IAF and HAL would be really careful this time in choosing the platform.This AWACS would be a little inferior to the PHALCON in terms of range and detection but will most probably exceed that of the E-2C.

 

[srirangan]

Seven years from now is 2011-12, so it should be an advanced version of the PHALCONS imho.

 

[yasin_khan]

I really dont understand the Indians. They were making atank called Arjun for atleast 25 years and have changed every thing in it but didnt have them in Indian Army.I think after making such AWACS they will buy the USAs E-3 sentry. :

 

[P.A.F]

: . no really i do think india has learnt it's lesson and i'm sure there aerospace industry is good. anyways they r not going to make this AWAC alone. russia and isreal will obviously help

 

[XEROX]

What will russia contribute to this project???

 

[P.A.F]

they would provide a suitable platform and help with the actual tech. can anybody else add anything?

 

[srirangan]

P.A.F. can you backup your claims. We know very little about this project, it's just in the pipelines.

 

[P.A.F]

sri. russia and israel r helping india with the current AWAC being built ( Phalcon). now i'm sure indian aerospace companies don't have the capabilities of makeing AWAC on there own. surely . so therefore it obvious that russia and israel would help in such a project if it really does go ahead.

 

[XEROX]

How advanced are russia in AWAC tech, isreal will help us if we ask for it - obvious with phalcon,

- what AWAC have russia developed

 

[turin]

what AWAC have russia developed

Russia developed and operates the A-50, Nato Code "Mainstay". Latest Version is the A-50U.
Details here:
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/a50/index.html