SAAB 2000 AEWC: PAF to acquire state of the art surveillance planes

SAAB 2000 AEWC: PAF to acquire state of the art surveillance planes

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will obtain three new Saab 2000 airborne early warning & control (AEW&C) aircraft. 

The aircraft will be equipped with the Swedish firm’s Erieye radar system, which can track both air and surface targets.  

On May 15, Saab released a statement that it had signed a contract with an undisclosed customer in the airborne early warning & control segment valued at SEK1.35 billion ($155 million). 

It said that deliveries would run from 2017 to 2020, with the order to be booked within the next six months.