5D chess of UN generals. It took 6 years just to tell "No"
A 330 is big but ERJ 145 is small. Now A321 is perfect but when project will reach at maturity they will suddenly release RFI for lease of AEW&C.
People have to understand that Public or Private, this is impossible to work with notorious UN Generals.
Now days Armed forces are not even able to conduct trials of existing platforms. LCH, LUH, ATAGS, SRSAM, TAPAS all are in queue.
Principles of UN Generals "Quality over Quantity" "Short intense war" has been proved dud after Ukraine Russo war. Sadly our Armed forces are just become another Judiciary. Woke, self centred, incapable.