Singapore to receive first CAEW this summer

last SG · 2007-04-06T23:48:58+00:00

There was a backdoor found in the Israeli coding...

alert5 SG

http://www.alert5.com/2007/04/quarterly-news-update-from-rolls-royce.html

Singapore will this summer receive the first of four Gulfstream G550 Compact Airborne Early Warning (CAEW) aircraft, powered by the Rolls-Royce BR710

tripwire SG

compact or conformal?? is there a difference between the two.. or simply typo error? Rolling Eyes

spencer99 SG

whoa!

replacement for E2C! hmm.. if i remember correctly, the E2C arrived in late 80s or early 90s.

It is still considered pretty "new".....

maybe the "economics" of operating the G550 is just too compelling...

insouciant SG

Interesting. Surprised there has been no official announcement prior to this on the purchase of these G550 CAEWs.

Cro-Magnon SG

Wonder how much those planes cost...

gary1910 SG

There are plenty of report since last year, check this out:

http://militarynuts.com/index.php?showtopic=688&st=0

Pitot SG

wow. but gotta admit.. really came out of no where…

tripwire SG

whats the specification for the radar?

Thrall79 SG

I`ve read the radar on these things can fry the electronics of enemey aircrafts. They are rather powerful.

beavan SG

way cool

tripwire SG

how far can it see?

OldBird69 SG

Surprising but not unexpected. Usually Mindef announces the purchase of such strategic equipment and makes it a news event, or else if they suddenly show up, our ambassadors in KL/Jakarta kenna summoned and given a lecture by their host country's govt.
I'm ignorant about the 'CAEW' designation. Does anyone know if this system is made by Boeing (such as E-3), or is it a system made by our friend in the Middle east? I know they bought a few 550s and equipped them with IAI Phalcon not long ago.

datafuser SG

The CAEW is made by IAI and Elta of Israel.

http://www.iai.co.il/Default.aspx?docID=34951&FolderID=32981&lang=EN&pos=1

Cheers,
Sunho

datafuser SG

According to a member of a Korean defence forum site http://bemil.chosun.com/brd/view.html?tb=BEMIL081&pn=1&num=36381, ELTA briefed about Singapore's G550 CAEW to visiting Korean journalists, saying that the RSAF's Required Operational Capability (ROC) for the CAEW is a detection range of 150 NM. I am not entirely convinced until I see the same from other sources.

Cheers,
Sunho

Fingolfin_Noldor SG

I guess they want to do a proper datalink so as to coordinate our AMRAAM or whatever BVRAAM we get.

gd4u SG

our E2C can go up to 300km, if our new stuff can detect only150NM, doesn't that translates to about 280km only ???? Rolling Eyes

tripwire SG

150NM is the datalink range right? what's the radar detection range?

ah_kwang SG

how’s the detection range compared to Israel’s version? btw i thought we bought 6 G550s? how come only 4 CAEW. I think its better not to speculate until mindef goes official.

tripwire SG

150nm datalink is one of the ROC (required operational capability) ,its not the radar search range of the phalcon.

although i vaguely remember somewhere the radar range exceed 600km for depending on the RCS... but i cannot be sure.. its been long.

the 150nm datalink requirement is surely gonna raise an eyebrow in our region.. given the fact that i dont think there is any officially acknowledged weapon in RSAF arsenal that has such a range... even our SOW, JDAM and AMRAAM do not posess such range...

maybe for the harpoon??

our current APS-138 on the E-2C search range is stated at 463km depending on RCS.

formally... we use the APS-125 on the E-2C with a similar air search range stated as the APS-138... but with a serious penalty in surface search compared to the APS-138.

gd4u SG

Since when we buy stuff, nvr raise eyebrows in the region one ....Our neighbours r sure to kick a fuss about it, no doubt ... If i am not wrong, the AMRAAM can only go up to 100km only ...