DRDO EMB-145 AEWCS will start its trials soon.

Prying plane in Air Show
By Anantha Krishnan M | ENS – BANGALORE 31st January 2013 10:18 AM

After missing two opportunities to fly public in the last four months, India’s yet to be named prying plane — Airborne Early Warning & Control System (AEW&CS) — is likely to make its maiden appearance at the Aero India-2013.

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CABS director Dr S Christopher confirmed that the AEW&CS will soon be ready for its flight trials. The first aircraft arrived in Bangalore from Brazil in August, followed by the second one in December.

“The indigenous mission systems developed by various DRDO labs have been installed in the aircraft. The systems have been powered on in ground and their basic functioning ascertained. One set of these systems are undergoing tests in the integration rig simultaneously. Once the ground check mission parameters are established, the next step will be to take up the flight trials of the AEW&CS,” Christopher said.

He said that the eye-in-the-sky platform would soon commence its intense phase of flight testing and system proving validating compliance to meet the operational requirements.

http://newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/article1443133.ece

Link to the previous thread.
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?p=1985003#post1985003

The real question is just how much of the development time and money invested over the decades thus far will be evident in this foreign-assisted ‘Son of Kaveri’ 15 years from now.

Where did you get the 15 years figure from, that was supposed to be a secret 😉

PS: The 15 year time was quoted for going alone, without a partner.

Regardless of where AMCA is at relative to KF-X right now, I’d put money on the Koreans reaching IOC first.

KF-X block-1 or block-2? The AMCA program goals are more in vicinity of KF-X block-2.

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MiG-29 also has less useful hardpoints with a belly pylon that is virtually permanently strapped to a fuel tank, and likely two more pylons on the wing making 3.

You kidding brah ?

If that’s the case, why is there any need for separate wind tunnel testing from the Indian side?

No idea, but Aircraft R&D center, HAL made a 1:15 wind tunnel model in September.

Low Speed Wind Tunnel Model of PMF Aircraft Scale model (1:15.5) of the single seat version of the PMF aircraft has been successfully manufactured at ARDC in a record time span of about six weeks.
Earlier, the detailed design of the model was completed by the designers from CAD and Wind Tunnel groups of ARDC within four weeks which is also a record. The flow-through model comprises more than 80 components including the dedicated pieces for simulating the deflections of the 12 flight control surfaces of the aircraft.

http://www.hal-india.com/MSM/VOL-5_MSM-94.pdf

MiG-29 Taking off from the Vikramaditya:)

Anything about FGFA surfaced yet ?

If we are lucky, hopefully a detailed 1:8 model at Aero India like AMCA, otherwise a teeny weeny wind tunnel model.