Indian MoD approves buy of 6 Airbus A330 for Indian AWACS

[Gabriel92]

Good news,for India,and for Airbus.

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[kaku1]

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Any information of radar?

 

[HariPrasad]

AESA parheps.

Any information of radar?

 

[NKVD]

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good news

 

[Gabriel92]

@levina @Koovie @Abingdonboy @sancho @nair @MilSpec etc. etc. (it would take several days to tagg all Indian members. )

 

[nair]

Any information of radar?

AESA may be.... But 1 more platform........

 

[Koovie]

Well that came as a surprise!

 

[Srinivas]

India needs atleast 30 to 40 Radome Awacs to cover Borders.

Apart from P8i's, small awacs and radars !

 

[Bhuvan93]

The relationship between India and France is remarkably strong. Is it on par with India's relationship with Russia and Israel now?

Mirage upgrade, Rafale deal, Airbus tankers/AWACS, Scorpene and many more.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

AESA may be.... But 1 more platform........

Well yes; one more platform. But this has a great deal of commonality with many airframes flying in India; just as the Phalcon has.

 

[Levina]

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@levina @Koovie @Abingdonboy @sancho @nair @MilSpec etc. etc. (it would take several days to tagg all Indian members. )

400km and 360 degrees range is indeed world class.

 

[Donatello]

A330CEO or NEO?

 

[sancho]

Lol, Parrikar is following the strange way of the PM, first publicaly bashing DRDO to work better and showing a much needed strict approach and making a U-TURN an awarding them again. Disappointing! So much for not take too many projects.

Well yes; one more platform. But this has a great deal of commonality with many airframes flying in India; just as the Phalcon has.

It doesn't matter how many A330s flying in India in airlines, but for IAF it's the 3rd AWACS platform, with different logistic, spares and training. And it doesn't have any commonality to the Phalcons, since not only the platform is a different one, but the radar won't be an Israeli one either. It might have "some" commonality to the current DRDO AWACS radar system, but that's just a minor part, which won't help much to speed up the development, let alone the induction.DRDO is doing a great work to keep IAF inferior to it's eastern and western opponents, that already have proper AWACS coverage.

 

[nair]

Lol, Parrikar is following the strange way of the PM, first publicaly bashing DRDO to work better and showing a much needed strict approach and making a U-TURN an awarding them again. Disappointing! So much for not take too many projects.

Both are two different things right? One is to bring seriousness in them..... the other to provide them order to work with.......

What other option does he have?

 

[sancho]

400km and 360 degrees range is indeed world class.

And that is the nonsense reason for DRDO to develop it, to claim that they have developed something WORLD CLASS! When will these people finally start defending the nation and not only their egos!