Italian Defense Minister Antonio Martino has reportedly called for the diversion of a portion of the country's defense budget for the purchase of at least six aircraft equipped with the Airborne Warning and Control System (
AWACS).
"Clearances are underway" to initially develop two
AWACS aircraft, with four more to follow at a later stage, under the new `AWACS-India' project to be executed by Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and its Bangalore-based Centre for Air Borne Systems (CABS).
For the first time Airborne Warning and Control System (
AWACS) will be used to monitor the mammoth exercise, while an unmanned aerial vehicle will stream live video images of the target destruction.
There are about 220 AEW&C platforms worldwide today, 76 of which are
AWACS. But Boeing no longer makes the 707 jet.
'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.
It would enable IAF to link its ground radar stations, its airbases and Airborne Early Warning and Control System (
AWACS) planes.
allies and international partner; realized the airborne warning and control system, or
AWACS, was vital to their air forces; however, the aircraft and systems were reaching their operational limits and a next-generation system was required.
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JF-17 Thunder, Mirage, F-7PG and ZDK aircraft from Pakistan Air Force along with People's Liberation Army Air Force's J-8, J-11, JH-7 and KJ-200
AWACS aircraft took part in the air exercise.
JF-17 Thunder, Mirage, F-7PG and ZDK aircraft from Pakistan Air Force along with People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) J-8, J-11, JH-7 and KJ-200
AWACS aircraft are taking part in the Air Exercise.
Since October, NATO has also deployed its
AWACS surveillance planes in the GME to bolster the US-led coalition fighting ISIS, a move also decided at the Warsaw summit.