New Delhi/Bengaluru: 'Make in India' seems to be the focus of this year's Aero India. The 11th edition of Asia's biggest aviation spectacle started at the Yelahanka airbase in Bengaluru on Tuesday.
A day after the IAF inducted the first indigenously developed all-weather airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system on the inaugural day of the show, the Army on Wednesday tested the Light Combat Helicopter (LCH), a multirole combat chopper developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited that is likely to get initial operational clearance soon. Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd also unveiled a remote-controlled weapon system for the Army's Arjun tanks that will enable a soldier to fire the mounted machine gun at aerial targets from the safe interiors of a tank.
The desi AEW&C, developed by the Centre for Airborne Systems in Bengaluru and integrated on Brazilian-made Embraer-145 aircraft, will add to the surveillance capabilities of the IAF. Currently, the air force has three Phalcon systems, which uses the Israeli early-warning radars mounted atop Russian IL-76 aircraft. However, the latest AEW&C addition and two more in the pipeline will not put India on a par with China or even Pakistan. While China has over 20 AWACS, including the new KJ-500s that can track over 60 aircraft at ranges up to 470km, Pakistan has four Swedish AEW&C aircraft and four Chinese-origin surveillance aircraft.
15/02/17 Surendra Singh & Chethan Kumar/Times of India
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A day after the IAF inducted the first indigenously developed all-weather airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system on the inaugural day of the show, the Army on Wednesday tested the Light Combat Helicopter (LCH), a multirole combat chopper developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited that is likely to get initial operational clearance soon. Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd also unveiled a remote-controlled weapon system for the Army's Arjun tanks that will enable a soldier to fire the mounted machine gun at aerial targets from the safe interiors of a tank.
The desi AEW&C, developed by the Centre for Airborne Systems in Bengaluru and integrated on Brazilian-made Embraer-145 aircraft, will add to the surveillance capabilities of the IAF. Currently, the air force has three Phalcon systems, which uses the Israeli early-warning radars mounted atop Russian IL-76 aircraft. However, the latest AEW&C addition and two more in the pipeline will not put India on a par with China or even Pakistan. While China has over 20 AWACS, including the new KJ-500s that can track over 60 aircraft at ranges up to 470km, Pakistan has four Swedish AEW&C aircraft and four Chinese-origin surveillance aircraft.
15/02/17 Surendra Singh & Chethan Kumar/Times of India
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