Vera Radar for Australia and Pakistan

[pshamim]

Pakistan May Buy VERA Radar

Looks like that Australia and Pakistan have revived their interest in Czech Passive Radar System. Pakistan was in the past denied this radar but reports suggest that with changing global situation, Pakistan may be the next customer of this radar. It can detect all kinds of radars, all radio and emitter signals, and data links. It can detect upto 200 targets with a range of 450km.

If Pakistan can acquire the system, it could very well rival Indian Phalcon system.

<H4>Australia interested in Vera radar system

PRAGUE- Australia has shown interest in being shown the Czech-made passive radar Vera, Defence Minister Karel Kuehnl (the Freedom Union-DEU) said after meeting Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, according to the army server www.army.cz.


Australians are also interested in the protection against chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, Kuehnl said, adding that they would like to visit the Liberec chemical warfare battalion, which is part of NATO's rapid response forces.

Vera, produced by the company Era, is able to detect another radar's presence and determine its type without being detected itself.

It consists of three relatively small devices, placed several dozens of kilometres from each other. It can simultaneously monitor up to 200 aircraft and accurately specify their distance and altitude.

Vera is a sophisticated successor to the well-known radar Tamara.

The Czech Republic has sold Vera to the USA and Estonia, while a number of other countries have shown interest in it, too.

The latest client is Pakistan. ERA is waiting for all the required permits. It has received positive statements by the Industry and Trade, Interior and Foreign Ministries, but it is still not clear what will be the position of the Defence Ministry, whose consent is indispensable for the deal. China and Vietnam have been rejected as bidders for the Vera system. A number of other countries, including Malaysia and Egypt, have shown interest in it.
http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=148516

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[Hussain]

Who stopped the sales to Pakistan in the past?


China was refused access under US pressure.

 

[aaaditya]

Who stopped the sales to Pakistan in the past?


China was refused access under US pressure.

i believe ukraine offered a similiar radar to pakistan and china ,do you have any information of the status of that deal,i believe china is trying to develop an indigenous design based on the ukranian radar design.

 

[gf0012-aust]

Re: Pakistan May Buy VERA Radar

Looks like that Australia and Pakistan have revived their interest in Czech Passive Radar System. Pakistan was in the past denied this radar but reports suggest that with changing global situation, Pakistan may be the next customer of this radar. It can detect all kinds of radars, all radio and emitter signals, and data links. It can detect upto 200 targets with a range of 450km.

If Pakistan can acquire the system, it could very well rival Indian Phalcon system.

I can't imagine that this report on Australian interest is correct for a number of reasons.

1) we have JORN, which is the largest and longest range OTHR system in the world. It has literally 6-7 times the range of VERA and is already known to be able to pick up stealth aircraft. (we did it in 1991)
2) if we need access to VERA, then we can get access to the US system (which was bought to stop a sale to China). The US has signed on for being a partner for future JORN enhancements
3) we already have VERA sized systems in place (in addition to JORN)
4) VERA wouldn't fit in with the current placements.

Somehow I think the article is confused in some areas.

 

[scraw]

Re: Pakistan May Buy VERA Radar

[/b]JORN .... is already known to be able to pick up stealth aircraft. (we did it in 1991)

I often hear this but never anything solid... wouldn't happen to have any details handy would you?

 

[gf0012-aust]

Re: Pakistan May Buy VERA Radar

I often hear this but never anything solid... wouldn't happen to have any details handy would you?

hmmm, mine are roundabout.

In the early 90's I taught kickboxing to one of the techs who worked for a front company on the project. He'd indicated during ODI that they had tracked a half squadron of stealth aircraft going into southern saudi arabia - this was before they lit up for the saudi air traffic controllers. I never paid much attention to his claim until I read an account by one of the F-117 piulots published a few years back about their route into saudi arabia. It was exactly how my student had told me - and bear in mind this was published almost a decade after I'd first heard it.

 

[SATAN]

Is this the same RADAR that bought down a F-117 NightHawk over Bosnia a few years ago?

 

[gf0012-aust]

Is this the same RADAR that bought down a F-117 NightHawk over Bosnia a few years ago?

No - and for the last time (and I must have written about this over 50 times in here) the F-117 was bought down due to negligence on the part of the pilot (flying the same route 4 nights running - and the fact that a French NATO staffer was arrested for leaking flight path and NATO traffic info to the Serbs. Major Brunel was arrested and charged with treason.