By Siva Govindasamy
Source: Flight International
The Pakistan air force has taken delivery of the first of its four Saab 2000-based airborne early warning and control aircraft from Sweden.
Islamabad became the first military customer for a Saab 2000 derivative when it signed a deal for the Saab Microwave Systems Erieye radar-equipped type in June 2006. Its first example made its flight debut from Saab's Linköping site in mid-2008.
"The aircraft landed at one of the Pakistan air force's main operating bases, marking a major milestone in the overall modernisation plan," says the service.
"Besides detection of high- and medium-altitude flying aircraft, this state-of-the-art system is also capable of detecting low-level flying objects over land and sea at extended ranges [and] of picking even the surface targets over the sea," says the air force.
The service says the type will enable it "to boost its operational capability manifold by achieving requisite early warning for efficient and meaningful air defence of its airspace".
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