Pakistan Certified To Repair SAAB AWACS

[The SC]

Damaged SAAB Erieye undergoing repairs at Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (Image: Pakistan Defence)

April 17, 2019

Pakistan has been certified to build and conduct repair works of Swedish firm SAAB’s Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), according to a report published Wednesday.
"Pakistan Air Force is the only Air force in the world to have the certification to repair Swedish AWACS," Pakistan Defence reported quoting an unnamed source as saying.

“For the first time in history, Swedish SAAB AWACS were built from scratch by another country, even to the disbelief of SAAB itself... who had declared the project technically impossible,” he added.

SAAB’s Erieye radar system is an Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) system that uses active electronically scanned array (AESA) technology. The Erieye is used on a variety of aircraft platforms, such as the Saab 340 and Embraer R-99. It has recently been implemented on the Bombardier Global 6000 aircraft as the Globaleye.

The Erieye Ground Interface Segment is a major component of the software used by the Erieye system.

The radar provides 300 degree coverage and has an instrumental range of 450 km and detection range of 350 km in a dense hostile electronic warfare environment—in heavy radar clutter and at low target altitudes. In addition to this, the radar is also capable of identifying friends or foes, and has a sea surveillance mode.

The Erieye system has full interoperability with NATO air defence command and control systems.

http://www.defenseworld.net/news/24618/Pakistan_Certified_To_Repair_SAAB_AWACS#.XLdx5ti8bIV

 

[war&peace]

Saab Erieye 2000 were severely damaged in an attack by the terrorists on Mehran airbase and Saab declared them irreparable so advised to write off but PAF engineers repaired and made them work so the certification was conferred upon them the OEM after inspecting the repaired system.

 

[Imran Khan]

i am ashamed of this nothing to be proud here a major failure .

 

[The SC]

 

[jamal18]

i am ashamed of this nothing to be proud here a major failure .

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[Pakistani Aircraft]

i am ashamed of this nothing to be proud here a major failure .

Correct. Pakistani military should never have allowed an attack on 3 strategic military assets like AWACS in the first place.

Not sure why the military is trying so hard to come back as hero's from this colossal blunder.

 

[Rank]

i am ashamed of this nothing to be proud here a major failure .

some kuta bila entered into the airbase and destory these expensive assets bought by the airforce of poor nation.. wOW! is that really a proud moment ? lets send these ****** behind the bars esp the intel failure...

 

[Vännen]

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He is in general ashamed of every effin thing so nothing to worry bout here...

 

[Imran Khan]

Correct. Pakistani military should never have allowed an attack on 3 strategic military assets like AWACS in the first place.

Not sure why the military is trying so hard to come back as hero's from this colossal blunder.

and worse of it no other country operate erieye on saab-2000 all of them on other platforms like 340 and e99 . to whom they are fooling here .

some kuta bila entered into the airbase and destory these expensive assets bought by the airforce of poor nation.. wOW! is that really a proud moment ? lets send these ****** behind the bars esp the intel failure...

aik to 3 tabah kara bethy un main se 2 repair ker ke ahsan chardha rahy hain saaly . you idiots lost one awacs deserve jails not medals . if they lost it in war i will never mind it .

 

[Pakistani Aircraft]

In a normal air force, some heads would roll after such a major blunder but in Pakistan's case expect medals for repairing them.

 

[shaded]

well the blunder happened . no matter how professional a force it's prone to mistakes . but the blunder is getting fixed now .otherwise it would have remained a blunder for an eternity

 

[Ghost 125]

some people on this forum consider themselves scholars cm miltary tactitians and strategists, in fact they have knowledge of 2 % things they understand half of that and they react 200 times ...just plain stupid.
those who are so ashamed, for them...we were at war, what do you expect from war, rosses and plesentries ?? every country suffer casualities and meterial losses in war, ever heard of attack on camp Bastion in 2012 ??? yes about the same time when kamra was attacked...for your info 6 AV 8 Harriers someAppachis and an AC 130 were destroyed completely and many more were damaged.

 

[shaded]

I guess this is the time when you say
" Look on the bright side "

 

[Bratva]

some people on this forum consider themselves scholars cm miltary tactitians and strategists, in fact they have knowledge of 2 % things they understand haf of that and they react 200 times ...just plain stupid.
those who are so ashamed, for them...we were at war, what do you expect from war, rosses and plesentries ?? every country suffer casualities and meterial losses in war, ever heard of attack on camp Bastion in 2012 ??? yes about the same time when kamra was attacked...for your info 6 AV 8 Harriers someAppachis and an AC 130 were destroyed completely and many more were damaged.

Just for your Info, There was a credible intel threat Kamra airbase would be attacked 2 week prior to attack. Even Rehman Malik claimed it on Media that Kamra airbase is one the hitlist of terrorists. The shameful negligence of Kamra airbase defenders and Parking AWAC in the open to give terrorists an easy target to hit ? DO you call this an achievement ? Our P3C were hit and despite that PAF officials were in oblivion of how to secure assets back then. Whatever the money they have spent on repairs and replacing a destroyed SAAB AWAC could have been spend on better things.

Lakh di lanat ... tere par

Whats with this amateurish attitude? He is right. You banged your car in the wall. Spend shit ton of money to repair it yourself. So will you be proud that yeah I gained skills to repair my own car ?

 

[Pakistani Aircraft]

well the blunder happened . no matter how professional a force it's prone to mistakes . but the blunder is getting fixed now .otherwise it would have remained a blunder for an eternity

Blunder has not been fixed, just being brushed under the carpet.

Complacency is usually not tolerated in a professional air force. No examples have been set for allowing a blunder to take place in the first place