indo-brazilian awacs to fly soon

bengalraider · 07-03-2008, 21:01 PM

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Thursday, July 03, 2008
Ministry of Defence

DRDO TO USE EMBRAER PLATFORM FOR EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS
17:9 IST

In a path breaking development, India and Brazil have entered into a deal to jointly develop an Early Warning System for the Indian Air Force. The agreement was signed here today by Dr. S Christopher, Director, Centre for Airborne Systems (CABS), DRDO, and Mr. Luis Carlos Aguiar, Executive Vice President (Defence and Govt. Market), M/s Embraer in the presence of Mr. Marco Brandao, Brazilian Ambassador and Shri M Natarajan, Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister.

The Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) System is being developed by the Bangalore based CABS for the Indian Air Force. Under the deal, Brazil's Embraer aircraft manufacturer will modify its regional jet aircraft, EMB-145 to carry the Active Array Antenna Unit (AAAU), developed by the DRDO, on the aircraft's fuselage. Three modified EMB-145 aircraft will be developed under this agreement; the first one to be delivered in three years.

The various sub-systems of the AEW&C Mission system will be integrated into the 'modified green' aircraft by DRDO and the full-fledged EMB-145 based AEW&C will be flight tested for Mission system in India by DRDO along with IAF from 2012. The AEW&C system comprises many sub-systems like Radar and communication links that are being designed and developed by DRDO.

A few EMB-145 based AEW&C/AWACS versions are already in operation with Air Forces of Brazil, Mexico and Greece.

PK/RAJ

samba in the skies anyone!

Sumku · 07-04-2008, 11:02 AM

Links please

Jay · 07-04-2008, 12:09 PM

PIB Press Release

Sumku · 07-04-2008, 12:21 PM

Isnt it Duplication of Efforts. Phalcons are coming and I bet these are not going to be at par with Phalcons. So why waste resources on something that can be purchased. I mean you only have certain amount of Scientists and engineers,so use them to make something that cannot be purchased from anywhere, like fine tune LCA or Arjun or SSBNs or BMD etc. Why waste resources on something which can be purchased from outside?

raj · 07-04-2008, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Sumku

Isnt it Duplication of Efforts. Phalcons are coming and I bet these are not going to be at par with Phalcons. So why waste resources on something that can be purchased. I mean you only have certain amount of Scientists and engineers,so use them to make something that cannot be purchased from anywhere, like fine tune LCA or Arjun or SSBNs or BMD etc. Why waste resources on something which can be purchased from outside?

when it comes to technology never depend on other nations, may be you have never heard about the LCA fly by wire fiasco with USA.
a country of 1 billion should have had these systems long ago, at least don't discourage them when they are doing it now.

Sumku · 07-04-2008, 15:29 PM

I am not discouraging. I am only for efficient use of resources however I might be wrong

bengalraider · 07-05-2008, 05:33 AM

i believe these systems are going to be used as the work horse awacs based to work with most of india's migs while the phalcon shall fulfil the role of awacs for deep strike and high profile and high risk missions working with the sukhois and pak-fa's in the future.

Skywatcher · 07-05-2008, 06:06 AM

Well, the Embraer could be used for patrolling India's airspace. It's sort of overkill to use a Phalcon for such matters.

bengalraider · 07-06-2008, 06:04 AM

the embraer being smaller shall take up a lot less space at airports as well

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Sumku *Senior Contributor* Join Date: 04-12-08 Location: Allahabad Posts: 990 Country:	Isnt it Duplication of Efforts. Phalcons are coming and I bet these are not going to be at par with Phalcons. So why waste resources on something that can be purchased. I mean you only have certain amount of Scientists and engineers,so use them to make something that cannot be purchased from anywhere, like fine tune LCA or Arjun or SSBNs or BMD etc. Why waste resources on something which can be purchased from outside?

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Sumku *Senior Contributor* Join Date: 04-12-08 Location: Allahabad Posts: 990 Country:	I am not discouraging. I am only for efficient use of resources however I might be wrong

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Skywatcher Contributor Join Date: 03-14-08 Posts: 530	Well, the Embraer could be used for patrolling India's airspace. It's sort of overkill to use a Phalcon for such matters.

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