The Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), being indigenously developed by the Centre for Air Borne Systems (CABS) here, will fly by 2010, and its prototype is expected next year, according to CABS Director K. Tamilmani.
In a talk on "Aerospace Technology and National Security" at the 29th Annual Science Festival, organised by the Bangalore Science Forum here on Friday, Dr. Tamilmani said developing AWACS was the most challenging task taken up by the DRDO and the Arakkonam setback had been left behind.
He said procuring such an advanced defence system was both cumbersome and very expensive as a United States-made AWACS mounted on a Boeing would cost Rs. 1,600 crore. The DRDO had been entrusted with developing the systems.
Dr. Tamilmani said the future wars would be fought from space with extensive use of space technology where the AWACS would play a major role. The war room strategies would be worked out using AWACS and satellites, which would beam vital information from space to the earth stations. The defence systems — air, land and sea — would be mainly depending on AWACS. Unmanned air vehicles such as Nishant would also play a vital role. The present day war was not fought between two countries but two groups of nations.
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