*KARACHI: Pakistan greatly enhances airspace surveillance capability withstate of the art Radars system installed across the country.*
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has installed nine state-of-the-artradars to boost its speed and accuracy in detecting unwanted intrusionsinto the country’s airspace.
According to the details provided by the CAA, the government has installedupgraded radar systems at the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi,Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore, Islamabad InternationalAirport in the capital, and critical locations across Balochistan.
Manufactured in the Czech Republic and Spain, the newly-installed radarssupport the central air traffic management systems of the main airportfacilities at Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. In the long run, the radarsystems are also expected to enhance the range of monitoring and detectionof civil air traffic.
The installation of the new technology comes at a time of high tensionbetween Pakistan and India.
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In February this year, New Delhi’s fighter jet was gunned down by PakistanAir force for attempting to intrude the country’s airspace.
After the aerial dogfight between the two ratcheted up tensions, Pakistanclosed its airspace to Indian traffic. Ties between the two arch-rivalswere downgraded further after India launched a campaign of oppression inoccupied Kashmir.
