It costed Sg an amount equal to the then annual defense
budget to buy the four 4 E2C,around 1986.Some US$800m.
But Not an old E2C anymore!
2.Many guys forget many of our our stuffs have been
upgraded.
Has the Sg E2C been upgraded to Group 2?
DSTA
did in replacing the Mission Control System of the E-2C. Basically,
the brains behind the E-2C. We introduced new and more powerful
computers, developed the real-time command and control software and
introduced high resolution colour monitors. We've also incorporated
the satellite-based Global Positioning System or GPS for
short."
"Basically, it's a radar that allows the E-2C to provide automatic
detection and tracking a target over water and over land up to 250
nautical miles away. In addition to the APS 138 Radar, what the E2
carries is the identification friend or foe system. Now this allows
the weapon system officer on board the E-2C to identify the target
meaning that he'll classify them as either friendly or unknown up
to 250 miles away."
3.
capable of providing air and surface surveillance, as well as
tactical control of air assets....
within DSTA, we were able to design and develop the Command and
Control (C2) system and its software (completely)
locally.
more
info
4.Prof Lui Pao Chuen, Chief Defence Scientist,
Naval Platform Technology Seminar 10th May 2001 tell you
what is
LALEE
38. A UAV designed for a continuous coverage mission will
require the operating cost per flying hour to be very low, below
US$1,000, to be affordable. A continuous coverage station will
require the flying of about 10,000 hours per year. The capital cost
of acquiring the platform and payload, say at US$50m will be
overtaken by the operations and maintenance cost after five years
of operations. The US Navy is studying the MRE (Multi-Role
Endurance) UAV to perform this mission. We have just completed a 3
year long study of LALEE which is an integrated airborne
surveillance and communications system designed to provide
continuous temporal coverage over a very large area. Providing a
task group operating in the littorals with continuous surveillance
from the air with this class of UAV will be considerably cheaper
than operating current generation of surveillance and
communications platforms. The technology is there but whether
Navies will to want to invest in this class of UAV will depend on
their perceived need for a continuous coverage platform.
