Pakistan's Airborne Early Warning and Control Aircrafts

[IrbiS]

FlightGlobal's WorldAirForces2016 shows 4 ACTIVE Erieye AEW&C with PAF, excluding the SAAB 2000 transporter!

Could be a mistake, or is it?

 

[nomi007]

 

[Tank131]

FlightGlobal's WorldAirForces2016 shows 4 ACTIVE Erieye AEW&C with PAF, excluding the SAAB 2000 transporter!

Could be a mistake, or is it?

Its correct. The erieyes that were damaged in the Minhas terrorist attack were repaired by PAF and put back into service. This was done despite SAAB stating that they were beyond repair.

 

[Quwa]

Its correct. The erieyes that were damaged in the Minhas terrorist attack were repaired by PAF and put back into service. This was done despite SAAB stating that they were beyond repair.

I wonder how much Saab would charge to upgrade our Erieye to SRSS [Swing Role Surveillance System], which would equip them with a ground-facing SAR, enabling them to serve as JSTARS-like platforms.

 

[Tank131]

I wonder how much Saab would charge to upgrade our Erieye to SRSS [Swing Role Surveillance System], which would equip them with a ground-facing SAR, enabling them to serve as JSTARS-like platforms.

UAE bought 2 new systems of erieye srss based on bombardier global 6000 and is upgrading its 2 existing erieye saab 340s for $1.27 billion. Using a very rough estimate, PAF paind 1.72bln for their erieyes and SAAB-2000 (of which $45M was for the actual aircraft), putting the system around $420M. That being said a portion of that was logistics and support and large number of spare for the aircraft so probably ~$400M. If you extrapolate that onto the $1.27bln deal for 2 new and 2 upgraded for UAE you would find that around $200-350 million is being spent on their upgrade putting upgrade cost for PAF (4 systems) in the $400-600million range.

Worth it in my estimate.

 

[aziqbal]

FlightGlobal's WorldAirForces2016 shows 4 ACTIVE Erieye AEW&C with PAF, excluding the SAAB 2000 transporter!

Could be a mistake, or is it?

Unless there is a picture of the 4th in PAF colours it's still at the Shaanxi (SAC) facility most likely test bed for newer rotodome

 

[IrbiS]

Its correct. The erieyes that were damaged in the Minhas terrorist attack were repaired by PAF and put back into service. This was done despite SAAB stating that they were beyond repair.

Good news then

Unless there is a picture of the 4th in PAF colours it's still at the Shaanxi (SAC) facility most likely test bed for newer rotodome

Erieye in CHINA

 

[ghazi52]

It is a great news. .........

 

[nomi007]

finally family completed
S/N 11-001

S/N 12-002

S/N 13-003

S/N 14-004

 

[ghazi52]

It is great..................

 

[princefaisal]

http://www.******************/dbtgallery.php?do=gallery_image&id=3257&gal=gallery&type=full
11-002

http://www.******************/dbtgallery.php?do=gallery_image&id=2329&gal=gallery&type=full
12-003

 

[Taha Samad]

This data was lost when site was attacked in April 2016, resulting in loss of data after Mar 19th, 2015.

Just posting it for record.

Looks like PAF is taking delivery of another Saab 2000 air frame. @Bilal Khan 777 mentioned that this will be converted to Erieye AEW&C locally, using a new Erieye System ordered from Sweden.

EDIT:
Hence PAF will attain back its planned strength of 4 Saab AEW&C systems + 1 in VIP/Transport/Training config.

029 - SAAB 2000 SE-029 SAAB Aircraft, Linköping
Flew Linköping - Timisoara - Dubai-Al Maktoum - .... on delivery to Pakistan Air Force, in basic Polet c/s. Aircraft had been stored initially at Örebro from Feb-2014 and subsequently at Linköping from Sep-2015.

http://regionalturbopropspotter.blogspot.com/2016/04/aircraft-update-for-01-apr-2016.html

 

[Bilal Khan 777]

This data was lost when site was attacked in April 2016, resulting in loss of data after Mar 19th, 2015.

Just posting it for record.

Looks like PAF is taking delivery of another Saab 2000 air frame. @Bilal Khan 777 mentioned that this will be converted to Erieye AEW&C locally, using a new Erieye System ordered from Sweden.

EDIT:
Hence PAF will attain back its planned strength of 4 Saab AEW&C systems + 1 in VIP/Transport/Training config.

Work underway for a while. Three ERIEYE serviceable fourth one in conversion.

 

[nomi007]

glass cockpit of zdk-03

 

[nomi007]

pakistan is using HN1101-F Airborne Communication EW System

on its Falcon DA-20