Under contract of $1.1
billion deal signed in March 2004, Israel was contracted to supply three
Phalcon airborne warning and control systems. Israel had dispatched the first Phalcon
Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft to India ahead of a
reworked delivery schedule. According to reports the aircraft arrived at New Delhi's
Palam airport on 11 January 2009 from where it has now moved to the Indian Air
Force's base at Agra.
India received second of its three
contracted Phalcon AWACS (airborne warning and control systems) from Israel in March 2010. Russia has completed its part of a contract on the delivery
of A-50 Mainstay AWACS aircraft to India, a Russian aircraft industry official
said.
India ordered three A-50EI variants, developed on
the basis of the Russian Il-76MD military transport plane and fitted with the
Israeli-made Phalcon radar system, in 2004. The first two aircraft are already
in service with the Indian air force (IAF).
India has an
indigenous AWACS programme being developed by the Defence Research and
Development Organisation (DRDO), which signed a deal last year with Brazilian
aircraft manufacturer Embraer for the purchase of three EMB−145 aircraft for
use as an AWACS platform.
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