Pakistani-Chinese jointly developed ZDK-03s to suppliment Swedesh AWACs
From the Blog pakistanledger - Pakistani-Chinese jointly developed ZDK-03s to suppliment Swedesh AWACs November 14th, 2010 Image via Wikipedia Pakistan has received its second Erieye radar-equipped Saab 2000 , has accepted its first Shaanxi ZDK-03 airborne early warning and control system aircraft. Islamabad has four ZDK-03s on order, with deliveries due to start later this year, say air force sources. The type is a new variant of the Shaanxi Y8 AEW&C aircraft designed specifically for Pakistan. The Chinese aircraft is powered by four turboprop engines and has a greater range than offered by the Saab Microwave Systems Erieye, the sources say. The air force recently received its second Saab 2000 surveillance aircraft, and anticipates that it will receive its remaining two in the second and third quarters of this year. Flight Global. Pakistan to get Chinese AEW&C aircraft this year By Leithen Francis The rollout ceremony of first of four Chinese ZDK-03 airborne warning and control systems ( AWACS ) aircrafts for the Pakistan Air Force was held at Hanzhong in China today. The rollout coincided with President Asif Ali Zardari ‘s visit to China – his sixth since assuming the position in 2008. PAF chief Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman was the chief guest at the ceremony, which was attended by the Commander of the PLA Air Force and other military and civil officials of China. The PAF signed a contract in 2008 with China Electronics Technology Group Corporation for the joint development of four ZDK-03 AWACS aircraft configured to Pakistan’s specifications. The ZDK-03 is an advanced AWACS with sophisticated integrated sensors and communications suite, PAF said in a statement. In his speech at the rollout, Air Chief Marshal Suleman described the event as “another milestone in the exemplary history of cooperation between Pakistan and China". This AWACS will strengthen the PAF’s capabilities to maintain “peace with honour in the region”, he said. The AWACS is part of PAF’s overall strategy of transforming itself into a “lean and technologically advanced air force”, Suleman said. The PAF will not spare any effort to make the defence of the country impregnable, he added. CETC Chairman Wang Zhigang said the induction of the AWACS by the PAF will have a “positive impact on regional stability, peace and prosperity as well as on the close bond between the two military forces and two countries”. The PAF has also received two of four Saab-2000 AWACs aircraft ordered from Sweden. The remaining two aircraft equipped with the Erieye radar system are expected to be delivered later this year. ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Air Force last year received the Saab-2000 Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft from Sweden. With the induction of the Swedish system, PAF has become one of the few air forces in the world to have Airborne Early Warning capability. Besides detecting high- and medium-altitude aircraft, this state-of-the-art system is also capable of detecting low-level flying objects over land and sea at extended ranges. The system is capable of picking even the surface targets over the sea. By virtue of these features, PAF would be able to boost its operational capability manifold by achieving requisite early warning for efficient and meaningful air defence of its airspace. The Erieye AEW&C mission system radar is an active, phased-array, pulse-Doppler sensor that can feed an onboard operator architecture or downlink data (via an associated datalink subsystem) to a ground-based air defence network. The system employs a large aperture, dual-sided antenna array housed in a dorsal 'plank' fairing. The antenna is fixed, and the beam is electronically scanned, which provides for improved detection and significantly enhanced tracking performance compared with radar-dome antenna systems.Erieye detects and tracks air and sea targets out to the horizon (and beyond due to anomalous propagation)—instrumented range has been measured at 450 km. Typical detection range against fighter-sized targets is approximately 350 km, in a 150° broadside sector, both sides of the aircraft. Outside these sectors, performance is reduced in forward and aft directions.Other system features include:Adaptive waveform generation (including digital, phase-coded pulse compression), signal processing and target trackingTrack While Scan (TWS)Low sidelobe values (throughout the system's angular coverage)Low- and medium-pulse repetition frequency operating modesFrequency agilityAir-to-air and sea surveillance modesTarget radar cross-section displayThe radar operates as a medium- to high-PRF pulse-Doppler, solid-state radar, in E/F-band (3 GHz), incorporating 192 two-way transmit/receive modules that combine to produce a pencil beam, steered as required within the operating 150° sector each side of the aircraft (one side at a time). 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