DRDO Statement-
"First fully modified aircraft for indigenous Airborne Early
Warning and Control Systems landed on Indian soil at CABS (Centre for Airborne
Systems, Bangalore, a DRDO laboratory) at 22:10 hours at HAL airport.
Aircraft was received by enthusiastic crowd from CABS, its work centers,
CEMILAC and IAF members. The aircraft and the flight crew were received by Dr
Christopher Program Director and Dr K Tamil Mani, Chief Executive,
CEMILAC. The aircraft and its crew from Indian Air Force and M/s Embraer
were given a hearty welcome with water cannon.
The acceptance of the Aircraft was completed over a period
of 15 days at Embraer Facilities in Brazil, by a team from CABS, its work
centres, CEMILAC, DGAQA & IAF.
The Aircraft was flagged off from M/s Embraer, Brazil on 17
Aug 2012 at 1125 hours by Shri G Elangovan, Chief Controller R&D, Dr S
Christopher, Programme Director, Mr K Tamil Mani, Chief Executive, CEMILAC and
team members and was flown across multiple continents to arrive in India today.
The Aircraft ferried with several mission system external components of DRDO
including the Active Electronically scanned Array Antenna with passive
electronics fitted on the Aircraft.
The arrival of this Aircraft marks the beginning of another
phase of journey leading to the next major milestone of integration of the DRDO
developed mission system, which will be followed by development flight trials
in India beginning of 2013.
It may be noted that this is the first Aircraft delivered by
M/s Embraer for which the contract was signed in 2008. The next Aircraft is
expected to arrive in December 2012."
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