Eye on the Sky: Phalcon Airborne control

Eye on the Sky: Phalcon Airborne control

   Phalcon is the short name of Indian Airborne control and Early warning Plane, after a year long deal, Israel finally dispatched the world's finest AEWCS plane to India, by 2009, where the deal signed early 2004, earlier the US shows resistant towards the most advanced radar sale to India and China, because of most of the Israeli defense companies has large investments from US, at first the Israeli's nearly signed a deal with China, However The US asked the Israeli's not to sale any such modern technologies to other Countries, in early 2000 Israel cancels the Phalcon sale to China,

   India approached the Israeli's by 2003, However America not interested in the deal, the Indian Israeli officials assured about the safeguard of critical technology of the Radar, and US gives authorization to sell the system to India only, and so far India is the only Nation who operates the most advanced powerful AEWCS in the world outside US, even the Israeli's moves into smaller platform with two side looking EL/W-2085 Radar's.

   The IAF Phalcon comes with three side looking EL/W-2090 Radar's which is mounted above the IL 76 platform, the Radar contentiously rotate to scan the Air space for hostile activity, the advantage of the rotating dome has less false rate where each targets being tracked by three radar's in a quick refresh rate. that's the rotating speed, nowadays those Radar's has zero false alarm rate that's why the fixed Radar's on the side of the Planes.

   The A 50 is not only just a Airborne control center, It can perform multiple operations, even it can be assigned with maritime attack role, since rival forces has capability to launch Long range cruise missiles from it's surface ships, however this can be now being tracked by the IAF's advanced P 8 and Tu 142 fitted with Israeli maritime Radars,

   Primary Mission of the Phalcon is the Long Range Air surveillance, It's believed that the Range of Surveillance and multi mode tracking is reported more than 300 kilometers, however it's not the official figure, since the actual range is classified, the Phalcon has three Active Electronic steered array, each module can transmit and receive data at the L Band frequency, the unique L band works on a wavelength of 15-30 cm and a frequency of 1-2 GHz, the actual T/R module numbers not available, however it's estimated it's have more than 6000 T/R modules, the advanced F 22 Raptor has only 1956 T/R modules, the more modules, the more tracking numbers, currently the L Band radar is noted best for detection and tracking airborne systems,

   The Phalcon can act as a Airborne command Control Communication and Intelligence system, easily denoted as C4I, mainly to carryout attack Run in enemy air space and uncontrolled Indian Airspace, when Fighters move from friendly Airspace they have to rely on their own Radar systems, Here Coming with a Phalcon will help the Fighters even in Enemy airspace and guide the fighters to carryout the Attack, the AEWCS transmission between fighters can't be intercepted which is work on a secure high power communication link, usually such missions are needed for control enemy airspace, In the Yemeni Interventions the Saudi E 3 AEWCS gets full control of Yemeni Airspace,

   The Phalcon can also act as a Network centric systems, which can direct and command Naval Air and Ground forces to co ordinate with each other, as likely scenario, if friendly forces operating inside the Phalcon's umbrella but outside Indian territory, if they calls Friendly Air strike or Missile strike to a designated point, the Phalcon can guide the missile or Fighter to strike the enemy position with pin point accuracy,

   In Air warfare, if a Long Range Air to Air missile launched from an fighter Jet, The Phalcon can guide the missile from mid way to attack the enemy Fighter or Cruise missile, the same called by mid course guidance, such guidance can be done from most front line Aircraft's too, However this is a new technology comes with AESA and Phased array radar only, earlier MMR radar has not such technology.

   Phalcon also have the capability to Jam and Intercept enemy communications and data link's, currently most missiles works with data links for precession strike, from Radar or satellites, if Phalcon comes between or identifies the enemy missile with the data link, the missile surely hits the false targets or fell down, and communication could be done by using satellites, the Phalcon can easily intercepts the communication link and decode it and alert the friendly forces, even has the capability to intercept the military Radio sets, the Phalcon has twelve operators which allows each of them can work on different sections like Air surveillance, C4I, mission alert, Support mission etc.

   The Phalcon's primary defensive sensor suites has Radar warning Receiver and Missile approaching receiver both are couple with decoy's like Chaff and Flares, the RWR can alert the Phalcon if it was under any enemy scanner, that makes the Phalcon to move away or fly higher to evade, the MAWS allows the crew about the incoming missile information where the CFD can automatically launch countermeasures at correct distance,

    The Phalcon has the credible IFF features, the Friend or Foe system allows the unidentified fighter either Friendly or Hostile Aircraft, if it was inside communication denied environment, the IFF system in Phalcon has high reliability compared to all other systems,

    So far India operates three Phalcon system, all of them based near Delhi Agra, India earlier planned to add additional two more systems, however the high cost put that order on shelves, as recently a year or ago finance ministry allocates the fund for additional Phalcon AEWCS and it's reported Israel already bought the IL 76 planes from Russia, and it's believed they were in Israel and the modification Programs going on, and if all things go clear IAF might get those new Phalcons by coming 2016 or later, however it's not mentioned what such additional options and Radar can be installed in the new Phalcon AEWCS.    

Using Air power to destroy Terrorist Camps in POK

Using Air power to destroy Terrorist Camps in POK

    The new Government taken power in mid 2014, with full hope of controlling border infiltrations and free hand of Indian Soldiers along the Indian Border to retaliate against enemy fire or infiltration, the New Government completes the first year, but no concrete steps against the Pakistani infiltrations, But despite condition the situations are not changed the Pakistanis doing the same again and Again,

    So far from early 2014 to 2015 nearly 50 Indians include some 10 plus Soldiers, the Terrorists almost  targeted Army bases and assaulted, later Army Busted and decapitated them, But the question remains same, How to control the Border infiltrations, The Air power is the only Options.

   The Air force and RAW intelligence almost have up to date informations about the Pakistani sponsored terrorist locations  inside Pakistani Occupied Kashmir. as earlier some Think Tanks stated that India may go for a Short Sharp war against the Pakistanis to stop the Border infiltrations, 

   The day almost soon, recent days too many reports of border infiltrations which causes Civilian and soldiers death, By comparing with Israeli's they almost Kill each and every terrorists who tries to infiltrate Israeli mainland, the Land shape is easy to spot them and Kill them, But here it's difficult, Snow's un explored area's, and worst weather conditions,

    If IAF gets the order to Destroy enemy terrorists camps inside Pakistani occupied Kashmir, It's sure Pakistan won't retaliate, lets see the exact scenario, IAF right Now has some good number of Fighters, Nearly some hundred plus Su 30 MKI is war ready which means they are in Quick reaction mode, all 100 will be launched within the moments of Some five minutes, by Moving some two to three squad of Su 30 MKI near Sri Nagar, gives complete Air superiority over PoK, with the help of IAF's Phalcon, one is assigned for Air operation and one more for  Target acquisition over PoK

    The A 50 can cover some 300+ kilometers where the original Range is classified, with the support of AEWCS some 6+6+6= 18 Su 30 MKI as Combat Air patrol, searching the Air for for enemy air activity, with the Huge combat radius and Fire power Sukhoi can keep all the enemy fighters in the Ground, if IAF dealt with Pakistan, it's clear the mission should need a IL 78 MKI Aerial refueler for continuous air operations,

       Meantime another AEWCS with RAW's elint platform will search and assign another set of fighters to perform attack mission, here all the Fighters will armed with highly accurate PGM/LGB missiles to strike the Target with pin point accuracy and score 100% target destruction capability, here we can use combination of Mirage 2000 and Jaguar Aircrafts.

  

   IAF has some twenty five plus numbers of Mirage 2000 aircrafts on Quick reaction mode, IAF has nearly 50+ Mirages where most of them in MLU, maybe 12 in MLU another twelve in test flights, along with Jaguar Bombers, here the Jaguars numbers may be upto fifty, while  some other fifty plus Jaguars is in upgrades, known as DARIN III upgrade.

    with the seventy two Ground attack aircrafts we can split them as six by six we get twelve strike packages, for round a clock mission, makes the Pakistani occupied Kashmir under Indian Air force control for some hours to clean up the land from terrorists, if each of the Strike packages comes with twenty four 500 Kg Bombs each armed with four PGM/LGB sized 250 or 500 kg warheads,

    In first wave of attack the Bombers will destroy some wide targets with 24 heavy ordinance, within a minutes another set of strike packages comes with same payload, this repeats for Six times, makes wide damages of enemy asserts, we can pause the actions for another thirty minutes to check the ground damage reports and mission debriefings to perform more in next waves,

       Meanwhile the Pakistanis will sit in the ducks, they know their Fighters won't match against the IAF's fire power, with the A 50 AEWCS weighting for Air borne targets and Su 30 MKI fighter are ready for Pakistani fighters, It's clear Pakistan won't send it's fighters to attack the Indian Missions in PoK. even if any Pakistani ultra patriot gears up his fighters for Air borne mission, Phalcon notices it quickly and direct two or more Su 30 to intercept the bogey,  with the Full speed and in Supersonic mode Su 30 easily penetrate Pakistani territory and engages the Pakistani fighters within their territory and come backs to friendly air space,

     The enemy don't knows whats doing the IAF pilots, all of them moves their hands to the Ejection seat switches instead of pushing the throttle, So it's clear that the  Pakistani air force won't take the suicidal missions,

       also the entire bombing mission only takes some 48 to 72 Hours, which results completes annihilation of terrorists inside Pakistani Occupied Kashmir which gives a temporary peace in Kashmir for next some fifty plus years,

        And It's clear Pakistan knows about Indian Amry, I sure they never forget Indian style during 1948, 1971 and 1999. if they tries the History repeats itself, and Says Indian Army smashed Pakistanis'