Hyperion
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Depends on a whole lot of different thing. Range of the radar, type of the airborne radar, look and track angle capability, networking capability of the said platforms to form an effective search grid.... etc etc....
Best guess, with the specs I had read for the Swedish systems, 5 - 7 aircraft airborne at any given time. So do the calculations accordingly, how many will we need to keep an effective watch, how many in backup..... etc etc etc.....? ? ?
In a "optimal-fantasy" scenario, I'd guess 21 aircraft... replaced @ every 5 years. Now is that going to happen? Depends if we hit some major oil deposits or some rare minerals, or economy improves to an extent... well, well, if wishes were......
Best guess, with the specs I had read for the Swedish systems, 5 - 7 aircraft airborne at any given time. So do the calculations accordingly, how many will we need to keep an effective watch, how many in backup..... etc etc etc.....? ? ?
In a "optimal-fantasy" scenario, I'd guess 21 aircraft... replaced @ every 5 years. Now is that going to happen? Depends if we hit some major oil deposits or some rare minerals, or economy improves to an extent... well, well, if wishes were......
@Oscar @Arsalan @Najam Khan @Hyperion @Aeronaut @Tempest II @Dazzler :
Suppose that we're at war with India & we'd want to maintain round the clock surveillance of Pakistani Airspace & perhaps up to a 100 km into Indian Airspace just for the latter to act as a buffer so as to increase our response time !
How many AWACs would be need to both (i) provide full coverage of Pakistani Airspace & perhaps up to a 100 km coverage of the Indian Airspace & (ii) to maintain a round the clock presence (accounting for the sorties & everything that would go into that equation) in doing this ?
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