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India successfully tests second indigenous
airborne radar flight
Thursday April 05, 2012 07:32:45 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: India's
second indigenous airborne warning radar, formidable eyes in the
sky, built aboard a Brazilian Embraer plane has been successfully
flight tested, an official said Thursday.
The test of the Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEW&C),
developed by India's Defence Research and Development Organisation
(DRDO), took place at the San Jose dos Campos in Brazil.
AEW&C is a radar fitted on a plane that provides intelligence on
not only enemy aircraft taking off far across the border but also
incoming missiles and troop movement on the ground.
It is a force multiplier in the sense it can enable quicker
decision-making by troop commanders for responding to threats
before time.
"Maiden flight of the second fully modified aircraft for the
indigenously developed AEW&C was held Thursday in Brazil," the
DRDO official said in a statement.
"The necessary mission systems and components, including the dummy
AAAU (Active Antenna Array Unit) are successfully fitted on board
Embraer EMB 145I aircraft," he said.
An elated DRDO chief V.K. Saraswat said: "Good show, well done and
congratulations!"
Saraswat credited team work for the success after the "modified
aircraft fitted with the dummy antenna unit performed very well".
The flight marks an important milestone in the AEW&C programme.
The aircraft will be delivered to India in June.
The other mission systems will then be integrated on to the
aircraft, and mission system flight trials are likely to commence
from November.
DRDO Chief Controller (Avionics) G. Elangovan congratulated the
team of Centre for Air Borne Systems (CABS) and associated work
centres and also the team at Embraer.
CABS director S. Christopher, who is also the programme director
for AEW&C, said the system had been indigenously developed in a
consortium mode with the help of DRDO and Indian industrial
partners.
CABS, a DRDO lab, is the nodal laboratory entrusted with the task
of delivering the AEW&C system.
The external mission systems were developed indigenously and
fitted on the aircraft. The rest of the internal systems too will
be integrated into the aircraft on arrival to India.
DRDO has signed a contract with Embraer to procure three EMB 145I,
and this aircraft will be the first to be delivered.
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