NETRA AWAC's Family.

[Hari Sud]

India has waited too long for these AEW&C. It is DRDO which has been slow and Military’s quality requirements which prevents efficient use of available resources. They want first edition to be at par with the foreign imports. Quality comes in slow degrees as experience is gained. Our military does not believe in it. They want exactly what they said or nothing else but imports.

 

[Blademaster]

India has waited too long for these AEW&C. It is DRDO which has been slow and Military’s quality requirements which prevents efficient use of available resources. They want first edition to be at par with the foreign imports. Quality comes in slow degrees as experience is gained. Our military does not believe in it. They want exactly what they said or nothing else but imports.

Yes but they also need to handhold and encourage the development and honor its promises of buying the products and keep developing the products until they get what they want. You don’t see US saying to its defense companies “give us what we want or we get imports”. They keep working at the issues until they get what they want.

 

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[Azaad]

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[Azaad]

It's would most likely be a Airbus A330 based Netra Mk 3, with a new 4D radar, instead of the current 3D Radar present they were earlier designed with

Basically this but with a new 4D radar.
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Also I don't think it would be a particularly difficult project given the studies of this variant were already near completion,
All they need to do right now is to pickup this old project and just rework the radar and leave everything else as it is because they themselves had already taken care of everything else earlier.

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The issue isn't merely the development or maturity of the tech though that too is an important consideration. It's more to do with the selection of the aircraft. This has been going on since nearly 2 decades.

In between things reached such a stage that the IAF conflated the requirements for Refuellers & AWACS with the same aircraft with suitable modifications were supposed to function as both.

In any case once this proposal goes thru the DAC by the time the response to RFI comes in , analysis is done , the RFP goes out followed by negotiations & releasing the order to receiving possession of it will easily take 6-8 years more so since the Netra Mk-1a & Mk-2 is ongoing which means this isn't deemed important.

Then comes the actual ITC. I'm being optimistic by mentioning the delivery period as a decade.