What does AWACS Stand for ?
Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C)
What is a Awacs??
You know what a radar is…ya in military terms…the dish tv type thigges which track a aircraft.
So what is a awacs… ?
ya coming to that …when you mount that dish tv type thinggy in a plane it is called a Awacs.
Awacs and MiG 29
What is the big deal in it?
As the dish tv type thinggs in airborne it increases its range and gives a better coverage on who is flying where
Okay …this is imporant because ?
AWAC systems can detect aircraft from up to 250 mi (400 km) away, well out of range of most surface-to-air missiles.
One AWACS plane flying at 30,000 ft (9,150 m) can cover an area of 120,460 mi (312,000 km). Three of such aircraft in overlapping orbits can cover the whole Central Europe…cool aint it.
AWACS Badge
Where do we use it.
Okay … if we fly this flying raptor ..let me say well inside the indian air space (10km to be safe) we can see 390 kms inside china .. what is flying ,how is it flying, and why it is fying.
This is important how ?
Okay now let say there is a air to air combat going on… in air to air comabat it is very important you see the enemy in your rader first.If you switch on your rader you give away your location to the enemy.. so what do you do…you switch on the awacs and whola…. it will switch on its rader because it is at a safe distace from the enemy,,,, it starts tracking the enemy aircraft and tells you where the enemy is via a satellite link … Now that you know where your enemy is ..you fire a air to air missile and done.
The same can be said about ground targets.A awacs can track air and ground threats.. pretty cool stuff.
Okay cool i got the concept…….so india has it now…how many does india have. ?
Well as of now India has brought one and two more are on the way.
So that makes a total of three….but china is big,,, ??
I know… the plan is to make our own home made using the technology transfer .
we were making our own Awacs called airavat..but it crashed in 1999 killing all the people on board ..and well it has been on stand still since. sad huh!
None the less the project will be jump started again…i hope
The badge of AWACS
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Yes it is useful.
By the way do our neighbouring countries also have this early warning systems ?
China has some and Pakistan is about to acquire one in October as the press reports say