DRDO

India’s state-run DRDO is seeking approval to buy six A330s from Airbus and convert them into early warning radar platforms. The proposal is currently before the Cabinet Committee on Security and once approved, DRDO claims they can have the indigenously-built Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACS) integrated on the first aircraft and delivered to the Indian Air Force (IAF) within seven years. The IAF has also recently inducted an indigenous AWACS platform on a Brazilian-made Embraer-145 aircraft.