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Saturday, October 14, 2006

Indian Air Force personnel to be trained for Phalcon AWACs in Israel

Phalcon AWACSThe first batch of IAF personnel including pilots have been sent to Israel to get trained on operational and maintenance of the Air Early Warning and Control aircraft ahead of India receiving the first three AWACS late next year.

"A batch of IAF personnel have been sent to Israel for basic training in operating the AWACS," a top IAF officer told PTI here during the ongoing Indo-UK joint air combat exercises.

Israel under a 1.1 billion US dollar deal is mounting three Phalcon airborne radars on a Russian IL-76 platform for delivery to India by December 2007.

In a run up to induction of the AWACS technology, IAF in the course of a number of bilateral air exercises is trying to get familiar with the technology. IAF was first exposed to operating under AWACS condition when the air warriors went to France, two years back to exercise with the French Air Force.

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