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Indian military coming out with a lot of ‘case being made’ moments nowadays (more LCA, IAC-2 etc) 6 more NETRA Mk.1+ 6 Netra Mk.2 is pretty formidable tbh Also confirmation that 3rd Netra was retained by DRDO the interesting part is the article mentions they are trying to identify sources...

You are quite correct. The 707 is a narrow body but it’s a larger airliner and not a biz jet/wedge tail platform. USAF had planned to go for the E10 which would have been based on the 767 wide body but because of costs has decided to upgrade their E3s to E3NG standard and keep them flying for...

One last chance should be made for those 2 PHALCONS because the first of the AWACS (India) assets won’t be coming for another 5-6 years but if Israel and Russia continue to play stupid games with the price then another 2-3 Netras should be ordered just as an interim measure. Any more than that...

IAF didn’t want Netra. They only ever wanted AWACS in Phalcon/EL/M-2090 class. They agreed to take Netra as a stepping stone to AWACS (INDIA) which is the kind they really want (360’ scanning, high power, high endurance, wide body a/c). Netra has already proven itself earlier this year in real...

The panels are fixed in a single slat array and offer only 120 degree coverage on either side (this is standard for such fixed slat arrays, the ERIEYE offers the same coverage). Yes, now LRDE are working on AWACS (India), to be based on a wide body airliner (A330-200) that will have simialr...

Maybe the ICG should be looking at this system for the future, during testing the Netra was able to detect 500 ships in one mission off the West coast: Not a bad capability to have at all especially post-26/11.

AEW&C (Netra):