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Service HQs never give timelines anymore

No idea, have to wait and see

Indeed it’s a huge undertaking and they’ll have to have a lot of OEM support although we’ve not heard a thing or any agreement with Airbus as of yet. Afaik they were looking for a private player to undertake the Conversion work

Looks like minimal work has been done so far other than re-registering it. I guess for now they are trying to get their pilots trained up on the new fleet they’ll have to spend a long time in BLR to be refit for the AEW role, I’m not sure if they’ve even identified the private player to...

Excellent catch still in AI colours but they’ve removed all AI writing, replaced it with IAF and registered it as a military aircraft

All of these jokers with stars on their uniform seem to have brochure fixation and demand only the best of the best finial products from day one. Either they are flat out retarded or they are bought off and want their post retirement golden parachutes from the global OEM majors. today you have...

The definitive list, good to reference going forward

The AWACS(I) radar is far too large for any of the proposed MTA contenders to support A330 wasn’t picked on a whim AWACS(I) was going to be on par with the Phalcon cost wise but CCS didn’t want to pay that

It goes to show what jokers the IAF are, they were forced to induct even the NETRA MK.1, even after PAF’s AEW strength outgrew theirs. Then they operationalised it and realised it was useful now 10 years later they are thinking about more. 15 years or so lost for nothing. Of course giving large...

Tanker requirement seems to be ~12, AWACS ~18 both very small for size IAF is

NETRA 1 had around 240 degree coverage, NETRA 2 will have >300 degree coverage. The remaining blind spot being directly at the rear

6 have been handed over- 1 A319 (VT-SCO) for the AMCA FTB, 5 A321s not sure when they’ll get the last A321 airframe, maybe they already have but it’s already with DRDO?

The first unit will be a prototype like for NETRA MK.1

AI to be sold off within a few months but this is likely to happen before any sort of agreement is in place for NETRA MK.2, has this been accounted for? I do hope this isn’t a case of one ministry not knowing what the other ministry is doing and missing out again by moving too slowly this...

Maritime radar on an AEW&C for the IAF?

Conversation for another place but of course highly shameful.

The internal fuel and range of the A319 is already substantially more than the EMB-145 so refuelling isn’t essential and like you said can be added later. That said I don’t think it’s a huge job and DRDO have quite a bit of experience with ‘plumbing’ via ADA and NETRA MK.1. that said the...

Yes if the appropriate wave classification software exists onboard AWACS can very much be used for this role (obviously if the waves are within the spectrum of the main radar)

It’s explicitly for the AMCA project and that project will be prioritised for this FTB. That said modifying an A319 is inevitably going to lead to learnings that can be applied to NETRA MK.2 and I’m sure many subsystems that will be common to NETRA will be tested in this FTB also. AMCA project...