India's Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) and Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop an airborne early warning and control system (AEWC) for India, using the Embraer 145 aircraft as the platform. | |
| The MoU could result in India buying three of the aircraft to build AEWCs, the Brazilian firm said here at the Aero India 2005 show. The Centre for Air-Borne Systems (CABS), a DRDO lab based in Bangalore, held discussions with Embraer and was collecting technical data. |
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| "The analysis is expected to result in an initial contract for three Embraer 145 AEWC aircraft and technical support during the development effort," Embraer said. |
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| The company will also be involved in some engineering work, Embraer's executive vice president for defence market, Romualdo Barros said. |
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| CABS has revived its airborne early warning system programme it had scrapped after a 1999 crash of a rotodome radar-fitted Avro aircraft near Arakkonam in Chennai. |
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| It will integrate in the aircraft phased array radars in the current Rs 1,800-crore programme, which the cabinet committee of security sanctioned last year. Embraer could also sell five aircraft to India for VIP transport, company officials said. |
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