Airborne Early Warning Systems - A-50EI Phalcon, DRDO Netra AEW&C, DRDO AWACS
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On the other hand , small sized Awacs can also allow any Air force to have a 24 / 7 coverage
We should have tried to get more Embraers instead of forever waiting for Phalcons
Not really. Large AWACS can also do the same.
As already mentioned, Embraers can't do everything necessary hence the need for larger aircraft. Embraer is too small.
Actually, we are funding all that, that's why we don't have money for more fighter jets, like a second Rafale batch.
Anyway, the tweet's made an error. The second one's supposed to be 2 Phalcons. The AWACS based on A320 is now being called Netra Mk2, basically the successor to the now dead AWACS India. So the second one's not from DRDO.
You're forgetting we're approaching 2022 soon. It's going to be the beginning of a new epoch.
Can't u read properly it's clearly written AWACS India. DAC had also cleared acquisition of 2 such aircrafts.
DAC sanctioned 6.
Defence Ministry allows DRDO to convert six A320 family aircraft into advanced airborne radar
The most crucial of the seven projects is the indigenous AWACS programme
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Netra Mk2 could also be a civilian name, not the official name. But it doesn't make sense to call this new program AWACS India since it was with the A330. The A320 program is new.
If you're still referring to the 2 based on A330 that DAC cleared years ago, then at this moment, consider it as dead. At the very least, the A320 deal has to get done with first. But at the same time, neither the Phalcon nor the A330 version have been officially declared to be terminated.
The infographic is referring to the first two A320s that will be converted instead of all 6 at once. And the tweet is misrepresenting it by dividing the same program into 2.
If I’m not wrong, currently DRDO uses Dornier turboprops test bed for radar and electronic subsystem testing. Considering we still don’t have anything for engine and supersonic flight testing What advantages this new test bed will provide over the Dornier we have right now?
Also it appears to me that it’s somehow related with P8is. Maybe part of offset deal by Boing.
VT-SCO is an A319. Wasn't the Netra 2 supposed to have A320-200s of AI?
I think it might be photoshoped..
Why will an offset deal with Boeing include an Airbus aircraft?
It ain't photoshoped. This A319 is a 'testbed' for DRDO to test its Netra-2 AEW&C system, not the final product to be offered to the IAF. The final AEW&CS will be mounted on an A320-200, as you said.....
