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Saturday, January 22, 2011

IAF plans to leapfrog into networked force this decade

Il-76 PhalconThe Indian Air Force (IAF) is planning to leapfrog into network-centric operations within this decade to beat its adversaries in battle scenario mind games, a senior officer said Friday.

'There is going to be a shift in paradigm in the way we operate, in what we are used to during most part of the century. We will take better part of a decade,' IAF Assistant Chief (Space) Air Vice Marshal M. Matheswaran told reporters here.

The IAF will showcase the modernisation process it is going through to put in place a networked air force in its Jan 26 Republic Day parade tableau, which will depict a Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jet integrated into the communication system of an airborne early warning and control system (AWACS) that the IAF had acquired last year.

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