India's Airborne Early Warning Aircraft ready for roll out by next yr

The country's Airborne Early Warning Combat Aircraft will be ready for roll out in January next year with flight trials starting by this year-end, Defence Minister A K Antony said here on Monday.

He stated this after handing over the Initial Operational Clearance certificate for India's Light Combat Aircraft Tejas to Air chief Marshal P V Naik at HAL airport here.

The Centre for Air-Borne Systems (CABS), DRDO, Bangalore, is developing the Air-borne Early Warning and Control system which would be integrated into the Brazilian-manufactured Embraer-145 aircraft, officials said.

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