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3 unusual facts about Airborne Surveillance Platform


Airavat

The code name for the Airborne Surveillance Platform, a prototype/experimental Indian early warning aircraft design.

Airborne Surveillance Platform

Though observers point to these differences as the reasons contributing to the handing over of the ASP project to the Indian Navy rather than the Indian Air Force, both the Indian Navy and Air Force originally helped define the requirements.

DRDO is developing an advanced surveillance platform based on a Hawker Siddeley HS 748 aircraft to detect targets at extended ranges with all-around azimuth coverage.



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