Força Aérea Brazileira contracts Saab for additional Erieye AEW&C upgrades

Saab has been awarded a contract modification to modernise the Erieye airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) mission system, installed onboard the Brazilian Air Force's (FAB) E-99 surveillance aircraft fleet.
Covering enhancements to the Erieye radar's operative capacity, the SEK325m ($50.7m) contract follows a SEK380m ($59m) award secured by the company for Erieye updates in February 2013, as part of the Embraer 145 AEW&C aircraft modernisation programme.
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Embraer flight-testing India's last AEW EMB-145

Embraer is flight-testing the last of three EMB-145 aircraft modified to be fitted with an airborne surveillance radar for India. Once the activity has been completed in Brazil, the aircraft will be delivered to the Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation's (DRDO) Centre for Airborne Systems to have an indigenous active electronically scanned array radar installed.
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Indian Air Force conducts Iron Fist 2013 military exercise

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has conducted its first day-night exercise, code-named Iron Fist 2013, in an effort to display its operational and precision fire power capabilities at the Pokhran test range facility in Rajasthan, India.
Involving participation from around 230 aircraft, the exercise was used to demonstrate day, dusk and night employability of aerial weapons by the IAF's front-line fighter aircraft, in addition to highlighting their ability to conduct seamless network-centric operations with the army and navy.
The exercise featured displays of various fire power aspects, such as air defence operations, counter surface force operations, urban warfare, combat search rescue operations, assault approach and landing, combat offloading and a short take off by a C-130J Hercules transport aircraft.
Participating fighter aircraft included Su-30 MKI, Mirage-2000, Jaguar, MiG-21, MiG-27, MiG-29 and Hawk trainers, whereas the C130J, AN-32, Embraer Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) and IL-76 Candid constitute the transport aircraft elements.

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Brazil signs AEW modernisation deal

Brazil's air force has selected Embraer's Le Bourget-based subsidiary Embraer Aviation International to modernise its fleet of five EMB-145-derived E-99 airborne early warning and control system aircraft.

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Fuerza Aérea del Perú adquirirá un avión de alerta temprana y guerra electrónica

El Ministerio de Defensa del Perú ha recibido una asignación presupuestaria parauna aeronave de transporte para la Marina de Guerra del Perú y, notablemente, una aeronave de alerta temprana y guerra electrónica para la Fuerza Aérea del Perú (FAP).

Durante el gobierno anterior, altas autoridades especularon con la adquisición (o modificación) de una aeronave con propósito dual, en una configuración similar al sistema que desarrolla Airbus Military sobre la plataforma C295. Un radar de vigilancia y control del espacio aéreo sobre la dorsal de la aeronave y otro radar ventral con capacidad de percepción remota “look-down”. Sin embargo, a pesar de la idoneidad de este sistema, las Fuerzas Armadas peruanas no han mostrado gran entusiasmo por el avión C295.

El candidato natural sería uno de los dos tipos desplegados por la Fuerza Aérea Brasilera (FAB), el R-99A (radar Erieye de SAAB Microwave Systems) de alerta temprana aérea o R-99B (radar de apertura sintética, sistemas electro-ópticos y escaneo multi-espectral) de percepción remota, con la consiguiente fluidez operacional con la FAB en el sistema SIVAM de protección a la Amazonía.

Sea cual fuere la decisión final de la FAP, Esta sería la primera compra de un sistema dedicado de guerra electrónica.

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