Air Force To Acquire 6 'Eye In The Sky' Planes In Rs. 11,000 Crore Deal

Friday, 10 September 2021Newsdesk

The Indian Air Force is set to acquire six state-of-the-art airborne warning and control aircraft in a deal worth close to Rs.11,000 crore with the Cabinet Committee on Security giving a green light on Wednesday.

New Delhi, 10 September2021

As per news report of NDTV, the aircraft themselves are likely to be hand-me-down A-321 jetliners from Air India which will then be structurally modified to carry a made-in-India radar developed by the Defence Research and Development Radar.The DRDO radar will be a modernised variant of the existing active electronically steered array (AESA) radar installed on two Netra airborne warning aircraft already deployed by the IAF.

Source - NDTV