US firm pitches its early warning system for India

[XEROX]

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US firm pitches its early warning system for India

[font=Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif]NEW DELHI, JANUARY 27: US Defence firm Northrop Grumman Corp has put on offer its E-2C Hawkeye Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) for India. The company will be pitching the Hawkeye at Aero India 2005, which begins February 9 in Bangalore. [/font]

[font=Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif]‘‘Northrop Grumman is proposing its E-2C Hawkeye and other network-centric warfare capabilities to meet India’s airborne early warning aircraft and battle management requirement. We will be explaining our solution at the upcoming Aero India show in Bangalore next month,’’ the company’s eastern region spokesperson John A. Vosilla told The Indian Express over e-mail. The E-2C Hawkeye costs over $51 million per unit. [/font]

[font=Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif]On December 21 last year, Northrop Grumman’s chief engineer Mark Kassner had made a presentation on the system to Navy Chief Admiral Arun Prakash at a presentation, Network Solutions for Battlefield Management: Command and Control. The Navy is currently in the process of chalking out its need for an integrated communications system. [/font]

[font=Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif]Northrop Grumman’s Manager (international business development) Tom C. Trudell also made a presentation on cyber-warfare integration networks to the Navy last month. [/font]

[font=Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif]In war-time, AWACS are used to identify multiple targets and guide airborne fighters to engage them. Apart from the US Navy, the Hawkeye is operated by the defence forces of Israel, Japan, Egypt, Singapore, France and Taiwan. [/font]

[font=Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif]India currently does not have AWACS capabilities, though six Israeli Phalcon AWACS — to be mounted on the Ilyushin-76 platform — are in the pipeline for the IAF, and DRDO’s Centre for Airborne Systems (CABS) is developing an indigenous airborne early warning system after the project was revived last year by the Cabinet Committee on Security.[/font]

This possibly means that the [font=Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif]E-2C Hawkeye will be stationed on the INS Vikramaditya (ex Gorshkov) if it materialises[/font]

btw whats the diffrence between the E-2C and E-2C+

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=63584

 

[ajay_ijn]

I heard news in Aero India that Indian Navy was interested in
Hawk Eye-2000D.
First of all Gorshkov will itself have small wing of 20 Mig-29k's and some 8 Helo's.
Will it be that necessary to carry a dedicated AEW Aircraft for that small offensive wing.
Ka-31 AEW Would be enough for carrier defence.

Third problem would be Coverting the E-2C Hawkeye for Short take off which I think they are not designed to.

Even india buys Hawk Eye it will deploy for maritime surveillance.

 

[XEROX]

Yeah, Northrop Grumman came to the 2004 DEFEXPO pitching for the Fire Scout[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] (VTUAV)[/font] and Hawkeye-2000 (AWACS), the Indian navy had a requirment for 8 Hawkeyes and the Indian Coast guard 2(possibly scouts), i remember reading this somewhere ill post the link

 

[tatra]

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This possibly means that the [font=Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif]E-2C Hawkeye will be stationed on the INS Vikramaditya (ex Gorshkov) if it materialises[/font]

btw whats the diffrence between the E-2C and E-2C+

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=63584

"Apart from the US Navy, the Hawkeye is operated by the defence forces of Israel, Japan, Egypt, Singapore, France and Taiwan. "

Of these users of Hawkeye, only US and France operate it from a carrier. Just because India would have a carrier doesn't mean it would/could operate the Hawkeye from it.

 

[highsea]

Third problem would be Coverting the E-2C Hawkeye for Short take off which I think they are not designed to.

That's exactly what they are designed for. Every US CVBG uses them. It's our #1 Carrier based AEW&C platform.

What I was wondering was how well they would integrate with the Russian avionics on the MiG-29K's. That might not be such a good fit.

The E-2C Plus has enhanced Radar, Satcom, a new mission computer and ACIS displays, and T56 Allison engines.

 

[ajay_ijn]

That's exactly what they are designed for. Every US CVBG uses them. It's our #1 Carrier based AEW&C platform.

US CVN's use steam catapults for launching the planes but the indian carriers only have ski jump.The present E-2C cannot not be launched without steam catapults.
Gorshkov can be considered similar to the US Amphbious Assault Aircraft Carriers.

http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_422.shtml

The Indian Navy's interest in the Fire Scout and Hawkeye-2000 AWACS also brought Northrop Grumman to DEFEXPO. Strangely, the company is pushing for the latter to be stationed on the recently acquired carrier Gorshkov and revealed that a variant with reduced payload for operation from a STOBAR configured carrier was under study. According to NG, the Indian Navy has a requirement for 8 Hawkeyes and the Indian Coast Guard wants two more. The US Navy will receive 12 Hawkeye-2000D in 2004.

 

[highsea]

...The present E-2C cannot not be launched without steam catapults.

oops, your right. Brain fart. :

With JATO's maybe...

 

[adsH]

That's exactly what they are designed for. Every US CVBG uses them. It's our #1 Carrier based AEW&C platform.

What I was wondering was how well they would integrate with the Russian avionics on the MiG-29K's. That might not be such a good fit.

The E-2C Plus has enhanced Radar, Satcom, a new mission computer and ACIS displays, and T56 Allison engines.

Not a problem for the Indians if they get all the Black Box specs they could produce an Adapter program for the time being they may have increased lag between the systems, there would always be, since your trying to translate between two Dissimilar systems(assuming they both utilize COTS Hardware and dissimilar Software), but over time when India decides to Upgrade those Legacy systems would disappear, its a short term solution.

 

[ajay_ijn]

Ka-31 would be enough for Satisfying the early warning for the Aircraft Carrier.

E-2C if deployed by Navy would boost the Maritime Surveillance for India.
If Situation demands it could be deployed for the Early warning of WMDs.

As Indian Air-Force is already getting Phalcon,They would not need another one.