i dint think the mk2's will get the 2052 as they are already beig upgraded. and you tak into account if the noce code can hold the aesa. yes aesa's are physically smaller than other less advanced radars but they have a moving arm do current iaf jets have large enough nose cones. also most of these jets are old and are being phased out.
Israeli ELTA have offered to worked with India for its upgraded version of EL/M-2052 MMR.
Question is ..are Jaguars really worth AESA? Mirages and Mig-29s are different thing though.
For interleaved operation, SAR mapping, terrain guidance, terrain mapping, passive detection.
With NAV attack Jaguar could not only lodge dump gravity bomb accurately, but would be apple to fire glide bomb, cruise missile, radar guided bombs making it an effective ground attack bomber and strike fighter.
As far as I understand this 2052 radar is only for MK1A and Jaguar ( Since that was the condition put as perquisite ie atleast 2 fighters). Neighther M2000 nor Mig 29 will be upgraded with this radar. Also as per my chaiwala sources the one for MK1A will be upgraded 2052 (Not sure if its GaN) i.e. better range etc. what elta is trying is to make sure India do not look else where for Radar, infact what I heard is there might be joint dev with India's uttam.
Don't know about your Chaiwala source, but for UTTAM its the BEL who can help with is GaN modules. ELTA had already offered to help India with the Joint development of the new upgraded Radar based on EL/M-2052. Israel could help India, in its algorithm at the MMR's backend.
Mig 23 and 27 are retired-
Jaguar has to serve for some time now- may be until AF has 100 or so Tejas mk2-
Mig-23 is Retired, but not Mig-27, which have been upgraded to MIg-27UPG but will be retired soon.
Jaguar can give its service upto 2030.
It certainly is a welcoming news, but I'm now much more interested in Russia's new Radio-optical phased array radar. This Photonic radar is futuristic.
I would love to see India get their hands on this tech.
Photonic Radar ?? Seriously I am suspectable to such radar, because as far as my information, there is no such stable radar till now, and the technology in the whole world is unstable and unmatture till now.
Ironic that Israeli's already transferred technology for the ELM-2052 radar to the Chinese, and its Chinese version is one of the three AESA radars (two Chinese & one Western) under consideration for the JF-17 Blk-3.
Chinese Firm Claims To Offer Israeli AESA Radar
Chinese Radar Strongly Resembles Israeli Product
Doesn't seem like a wise decision by InAF to opt for this particular radar on 3 platforms when its technology is already transferred/ leaked. Vise versa if MK-2 flies before the Blk-3 then PAF should choose the alternative AESA.
Also another issue HAL would have more problems, the ELM-2032 on the current Tejas is 100KG with 3KVA power, the ELM 2052 is 180KG with 10KVA power. HAL already has promised to shed net 1000KG on the MK-2 plus the added power requirements on aircraft power system. HAL has big issues to work with that can cause potential delays..
Lolz Speculation
Chinese KJ-7 is the Russian Zhuk Aesa radar, with Chinese Antenna.
Many components and parts of the MK-1 specially the landing gear is over engineered, for safety reasons, which could be shead lot of load, actually the problem of the E</M2052 is not the wt. rather the heat generated. Work on its cryogenic cooling have been started, and in advance stage, so don't worry about that.
