IAF buys new radars to boost up coastal surveillance
As part of its move to thicken radar coverage over the Southern Indian peninsula, Indian Air Force will acquire advanced coastal and maritime surveillance and air traffic control radars from Italy.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: As part of its move to thicken radar coverage over the Southern Indian peninsula, Indian Air Force will acquire advanced coastal and maritime surveillance and air traffic control radars from Italy.
Under the Rs 293.72 crore (Euro 52 million) deal between the European radar major Finmeccania SPA and Bharat electronics limited, IAF will get 13 ATCR33S primary radars and another 13 SirS secondary radars with giant air control consoles, according to official sources here.
Under bold new strategy, similar radars were purchased by the Airport Authority of India earlier this year for the new Bangalore and Hyderabad Greenfield airports and these would be networked with the Radars being inducted by the IAF.
"Such networked system would give us capability to look almost 300 to 500 nautical miles away into the high seas to pick up any threat to the coastline," IAF officials said.
The new radars, sources said, will also augment the IAF's move to place some of the Israeli acquired Aerostat mobile radars in the Southern coastal region to protect its high value assets like the Tamil Nadu-based fast-breeder nuclear reactors.
The new radar systems will be delivered within three years and the deal gives India an option to co-produce some of these advanced radars under technology transfer.
Under the Rs 293.72 crore (Euro 52 million) deal between the European radar major Finmeccania SPA and Bharat electronics limited, IAF will get 13 ATCR33S primary radars and another 13 SirS secondary radars with giant air control consoles, according to official sources here.
Under bold new strategy, similar radars were purchased by the Airport Authority of India earlier this year for the new Bangalore and Hyderabad Greenfield airports and these would be networked with the Radars being inducted by the IAF.
"Such networked system would give us capability to look almost 300 to 500 nautical miles away into the high seas to pick up any threat to the coastline," IAF officials said.
The new radars, sources said, will also augment the IAF's move to place some of the Israeli acquired Aerostat mobile radars in the Southern coastal region to protect its high value assets like the Tamil Nadu-based fast-breeder nuclear reactors.
The new radar systems will be delivered within three years and the deal gives India an option to co-produce some of these advanced radars under technology transfer.
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