HAL’s Avionics Div Assembles first Israeli AESA Radar 2052 for Jaguar jets

HAL’s Avionics Div, Hyderabad has acquired clearance for the primary AESA Radar (CBU part) to be fitted on the Jaguar DARIN III UPG plane. That is the primary AESA radar being fitted on any platform in India. HAL Hyderabad is the manufacturing company for a complete of 54 AESA radars underneath ToT from IAI, Elta Methods, Israel In a short ceremony held on 20 November 2020, the Clearance Certificates was handed over by HV Kumar, RDAQA (Hyd) to Mr Rajeev Kumar, GM (AD). “ELTA ELM-2052 is a Hearth Management Radar FCR designed for air-to-air superiority/strike missions, based mostly on totally solid-state Energetic Electronically Scanning Array AESA tech enabling the radar to attain lengthy detection ranges and multi-target monitoring capabilities”: IAI web site In February 2020, HAL entered right into a contract with IAI for 54 of those underneath ToT. As a part of the TOT, HAL will manufacture Gallium arsenide (GaAs) based mostly transistors and receivers that are a part of the radar Antenna . ELTA ELM-2052 can also be being chosen for the 83 Tejas Mk1A fighter jets./// (PG-Intel)