indigenous development of awacs

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

2 Rajya Sabha

overnment proposes to develop Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AWACS) indigenously.

A programme for design and development of indigenous Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) System was sanctioned to DRDO in October 2004. The preliminary designs of various subsystems of the AEW&C have been completed.

The time frame for the completion of development activities and commencement of User trials is 78 months.

This information was given by the Defence Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee in a written reply to Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad and Shri B J Panda in Rajya Sabha today.