Indian EMB-145 AEW&C

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DRDO seeks info on 'graft' in 2008 Embraer deal

September 10, 2017

The deal was signed between Embraer and the DRDO for three aircraft equipped with indigenous radars for airborne early warning and control systems.

The $208-million (Rs 1,390 crore) jet deal with Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer during the United Progressive Alliance regime has kicked up dust with United States authorities going into alleged payment of kickbacks while India has sought information from the company within 15 days.

After the Defence Research and Development Organisation receives information, further steps may be initiated, the Defence Ministry said today after reports emerged that the 2008-deal has come under the scanner of the US Justice Department, which has been probing Embraer for alleged payment of bribes to secure contracts.

“The DRDO has sought information from manufacture of Embraer aircraft within 15 days on media reports on aircraft deal signed in 2008,” Defence ministry sources said.

“On receipt of information by the DRDO, further steps may be initiated,” they said.

The deal was signed in 2008 between Embraer and the DRDO for three aircraft equipped with indigenous radars for airborne early warning and control systems.

The Bharatiya Janata Party attacked the Congress on the issue.

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said they thought that the stories of Congress corruption would be less heard since change of power in 2014. However, every deal is giving signal of taint.

“The past of UPA always keeps on appearing with alarming regularity,” he said at a press conference at the BJP office.

The company has been under investigation by the US Justice Department since 2010 when a contract with the Dominican Republic raised the Americans’ suspicions.



Since then, the investigation has widened to examine business dealings with eight more countries.

“Investigations that have been opened by the government of the United States to establish whether Embraer paid bribes in order to obtain contracts abroad have affected deals that the Brazilian company closed with Saudi Arabia and India,” Brazilian newspaper Folha De São Paulo reported.

It is suspected that a leading Indian middleman based in the United Kingdom was roped in for the deal.

DRDO chief S Christopher, who headed the AEW&S programme earlier, did not pick up calls or respond to messages.

Embraer is cooperating with the investigations and announced in July that it was expecting to reach a deal soon with American authorities, the paper said.

The company has put $200 million (Rs 1,340 crore) aside to pay any eventual fines that come about as a result of the process.

The company has not released details regarding the state of the investigations, but three people who have been following the case have confirmed to Folha that the deals concluded in Saudi Arabia and India are being examined, the paper reported.

In both cases, suspicions were underlined in May this year when an employee with more than 30 years at the company reached a plea-bargain agreement in investigations being conducted by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office in Brazil.

Albert Phillip Close, Manager of Embraer’s defence area, told Prosecutor Marcello Miller that he had heard a former sales director who worked in Europe admit to American investigators the payment of commissions to facilitate the sale of aircraft to the Saudis.

In November of 2010, the company announced the delivery of two Embraer 170 executive jets to the Saudi Arabian state-owned oil company Aramco. The amount of the deal was not announced at the time.

IS it really scam or ploy to stop/derail integration .DRDO efforts would be wasted it this project is derailed

Allready lots of project has been derailed

And what US has do in first place when plane is an Brazilian one

 

[Prashant12]

Aircraft with Indian airborne warning system set for induction

The first of the two small surveillance aircraft carrying the first Indian airborne early warning system is slated to be inducted into the Air Force in about two months, it is reliably learnt.

The DRDO has fitted its own airborne early warning and control system (AEW & CS) on a modified Embraer ERJ 145 aircraft imported from Brazil.

The AEW & CS is basically a ‘sharp-seeing and listening’ radar that can look out deep across enemy territory for any incoming threat without itself crossing over. “The aircraft has undergone the requisite operational trials, [got certified] and is ready for induction in November or later,” a person with knowledge of its progress told The Hindu .

Second aircraft

The second aircraft is going through the initial trials and is likely to join the first one around mid-2017 at the Bhisiana Air Force Station in Bathinda, Punjab, close to the northern borders.

The DRDO’s Bengaluru-based Centre for Airborne Systems (CABS) is the nodal agency for the design, integration and testing of the Indian early warning systems on the Embraer.

(Early this month the DRDO sought details of the purchase of the two aircraft after the United States launched a probe in recent months into suspected payments in the Brazilian deal.)

Work on the twin Rs. 2,000-crore surveillance aircraft project started after the first customised plane reached CABS in July 2012 from Sao Paulo.

The DRDO has fitted its own AEW&CS on a modified Embraer ERJ 145 aircraft, imported from Brazil

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-pape...g-system-set-for-induction/article9165096.ece

 

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[Zebra]

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[charlie]

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almost every deal will have a middle man, it's about time the media stops creating a hipe about it, the new DPP changes the name of "middle man" to "assigned representative".

 

[Prashant12]

IAF to get 'eye in the sky' to snoop on Pakistani and Chinese air force

The Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEWC) aircraft will be inducted on Dec 23 at Chitradurga Range in Karnataka.

After a delay, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) would help in enhancing Indian Air Force's capability to snoop and detect activities of Pakistani and Chinese air force as it is planning to induct the indigenously-developed snooping plane later this month.

"The plan is to induct the Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEWC) aircraft on December 23 at our newly developed Chitradurga Aeronautical Range in Karnataka," DRDO officials told Mail Today here. Once inducted, the aircraft would help the Air Force to detect, identify and classify threats present in the area under its surveillance and can send the IAF fighters towards enemy planes and other airborne assets.

WHAT IS THE AIRCRAFT CAPABLE OF?

"The plane can act as a command-and-control centre to support air defence operations like the AWACS aircraft India got from Israel and can monitor multiple target aircraft and areas," the officials said. "The AEWC system can support Air Force in offensive strike missions and assist forces in the tactical battle area in case of hostilities with the enemy countries," they said.

READ | DRDO to salvage home-grown aircraft dumped by Indian Navy

Sources said most of the capabilities in the aircraft have already been proven but some of them are still undergoing testing and would continue while the aircraft flies in the Air Force. India had contracted for three AWACS aircraft from Russia and Israel which are already flying for the Air Force and the service is looking for inducting two more in another tripartite deal. The planes for the system are provided by Russia while the radar and other snooping systems were provided and integrated by the Israelis.

The only difference between the Indian and Israeli 'eye in the sky' is that the IL-76 heavylift aircraft-mounted AWACS system can carry out 360 degree surveillance at a time while the AEWC can monitor only 270 degrees due to limitations in the type of radar.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/...rning-and-control-aircraft-drdo/1/829481.html

 

[Prashant12]

IAF to finally have desi ‘eye in the sky’ to look into Pakistan, China

BENGALURU: The Indian Air Force (IAF) will finally induct the first indigenously developed all-weather airborne early warning and control system (AeW&CS)—'Eyes in the Sky"—later this month, augmenting its ability to detect incoming cruise missiles, fighter jets or even drones from both Pakistan and China.

India, which experts say is lagging behind in this aspect of defence capability in comparison with both China and Pakistan, presently has only three Phalcon airborne warning and control system (AWACS), which uses the Israeli early-warning radars mounted in domes on top of IL-76 aircraft.

The indigenous AeW&CS, developed by the Centre for Airborne Systems (CABS) in Bengaluru and integrated on Brazilian-made Embraer-145 aircraft at a cost of over Rs 2,200 crore, has completed all tests and certification, sources in DRDO told TOI.

It will add to the capabilities along with the three Phalcon systems. "The first AeW&Cs is ready for induction while the second one is in the final stages of tests and certification," the source said. Work on the third and final one is yet to reach the final stages.

Pegged as a "force multiplier", the system is equipped with a 240-degree coverage radars in contrast to the existing Phalcons, which provide a 360-degree coverage over a 400-km range. The AEW&C system will detect, identify and classify threats present in the surveillance area and act as a Command and Control Centre to support Air Defence operations.

"It is equipped with multiple communication and data links that can alert and direct fighters against threats while providing Recognizable Air Surveillance Picture (RASP) to commanders at the Ground Exploitation Stations (GES) that are strategically located," DRDO has said.

Besides, the system will support IAF in offensive strike missions and assist forces in the tactical battle area. "The Electronic and Communication Support Measures of the system can also intercept and gather electronic and communication intelligence from radar transmissions and communication signals. It is a multi-sensor surveillance system that can perform the following operational roles as defined by the IAF," a senior official said.

However, this addition and even the other two in the pipeline will not put India on a par with China or even Pakistan.

China is equipped with better capabilities. As TOI reported earlier, China has over 20 AWACS, including the new KJ-500 ones that can track over 60 aircraft at ranges up to 470km, while Pakistan, on the other hand has four Swedish Saab-2000 AeW&C aircraft and four Chinese-origin ZDK-03 (KJ-200) AWACS.

Keeping this in mind, the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), in March 2016 cleared building of two Awacs, which will involve mounting indigenous 360-degree coverage AESA (active electronically scanned array) radars on Airbus A-330 wide-body jets.

The estimated cost of this project is Rs 5,113 crore and the eventual plan is to induct eight such aircraft under the "Awacs -India". But this is going to take at least seven years to be implemented, if the DRDO sticks to deadlines.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-into-pakistan-china/articleshow/56338292.cms

 

[Prashant12]

The soon-to-be-in-service DRDO-Embraer Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) jet, in the skies over Delhi today.

https://twitter.com/livefist/

 

[AmoghaVarsha]

Do we have any idea about the range,number of targets it can track etc?

 

[Chinmoy]

The soon-to-be-in-service DRDO-Embraer Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) jet, in the skies over Delhi today.

https://twitter.com/livefist/

I think it is also going o be a part of Jan 26 parade this time. Am I right?

 

[Chinmoy]

Do we have any idea about the range,number of targets it can track etc?

Highly confidential, but whatever is available in open media, it does have a range of 400 km of active scanning. It could do upto 60 high performance tracking. But all of these are unofficial.

 

[AmoghaVarsha]

Highly confidential, but whatever is available in open media, it does have a range of 400 km of active scanning. It could do upto 60 high performance tracking. But all of these are unofficial.

That makes it better than Chinese KJ 500s.

 

[Chinmoy]

That makes it better than Chinese KJ 500s.

You could compare KJ 500 with EL/W-2090. DRDO AEW&CS is comparable and notch better then Erieye.

 

[AmoghaVarsha]

You could compare KJ 500 with EL/W-2090. DRDO AEW&CS is comparable and notch better then Erieye.

Thats a big statement.Erieye is one of the best in the world.

 

[Chinmoy]

Thats a big statement.Erieye is one of the best in the world.

But again, nothing official about its spec is out in any open discussion.

 

[Narasimh]

You could compare KJ 500 with EL/W-2090. DRDO AEW&CS is comparable and notch better then Erieye.

why is IAF going for just 3 even when its a decent enough system (may or may not be better than Erieye)
But when IAF is focussed on increasing air defence capability, ordering only three of these systems could mean a couple of things:
1. Either IAF is not confident with the system due to lesser capability than what was expected. This would bring to question how defense research projects are conducted in the country.
However I believe the feasibility studies would have been done by DRDO and IAF would know what to expect before signing on for this.
OR
2. These were developed as a stepping stone to try for bigger platforms. This is the reason given most often but Indian Air space is huge and would do good with these smaller and less expensive systems. Also, why is IAF going for more phalcons?
OR
3. And this is just a theory/wild guess at best... DRDO is developing platform we don't know about and using this as a radar tech POC platform??!!

 

[Adioz]

why is IAF going for just 3 even when its a decent enough system (may or may not be better than Erieye)
But when IAF is focussed on increasing air defence capability, ordering only three of these systems could mean a couple of things:
1. Either IAF is not confident with the system due to lesser capability than what was expected. This would bring to question how defense research projects are conducted in the country.
However I believe the feasibility studies would have been done by DRDO and IAF would know what to expect before signing on for this.
OR
2. These were developed as a stepping stone to try for bigger platforms. This is the reason given most often but Indian Air space is huge and would do good with these smaller and less expensive systems. Also, why is IAF going for more phalcons?
OR
3. And this is just a theory/wild guess at best... DRDO is developing platform we don't know about and using this as a radar tech POC platform??!!

I am a bit out of touch, but are the Embraer jets that carry these AEW&CS not under an anti-corruption scanner? Maybe that is why follow on orders have not been placed?

Maybe its option 3. There was some news of a larger "AWACS" system being developed by DRDO:-

India takes up AWACS programme

Asked how it's different from the indigenous Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) system, he said: "AWACS is a heavier and high endurance system, which can give you in terms of coverage about 360 degrees as against AEW&C which is about 270 degree coverage".

In addition, (compared to AEW&C) AWACS flies at a higher altitude and it can penetrate into the enemy territory -- not physically -- (but) by way of radars and EW (electronic warfare) systems to longer distances ..

"Both has a role. All over the world, people have AEW&C and AWACS in a tandem mode because each one does its role and that's what our country is also doing", Saraswat said.

 

[HariPrasad-1]

Do we have any idea about the range,number of targets it can track etc?

Range will be 300 km minimum.,................

 

[Chinmoy]

why is IAF going for just 3 even when its a decent enough system (may or may not be better than Erieye)
But when IAF is focussed on increasing air defence capability, ordering only three of these systems could mean a couple of things:
1. Either IAF is not confident with the system due to lesser capability than what was expected. This would bring to question how defense research projects are conducted in the country.
However I believe the feasibility studies would have been done by DRDO and IAF would know what to expect before signing on for this.
OR
2. These were developed as a stepping stone to try for bigger platforms. This is the reason given most often but Indian Air space is huge and would do good with these smaller and less expensive systems. Also, why is IAF going for more phalcons?
OR
3. And this is just a theory/wild guess at best... DRDO is developing platform we don't know about and using this as a radar tech POC platform??!!

Although @Adioz already replied to your queries, I would add two cents from my side. IAF ordered 3 as the first lot. Now you have to remember the fact that although these have undergone massive test in controlled environments, but only after induction you do get a real sense of its operational capabilities under real operational condition. Based on its capability it would see service. There is no point of ordering a untested electronic warfare system in huge numbers.

 

[hacker J]

How does drdo AEW&CS perform againts pakistani erieye system?? If Bettr than on which stances? And poor than on which specs?