Airforce-technology.com reports that India has offered to buy two intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance – ISTAR – aircraft from Raytheon on a government-to-government basis. These planes use an active electronically scanned array radar which is able to increase the ground-detection capabilities of the air force by scanning targets at distances greater than 18,641 miles in a minute, and analyzing that data in 10 to 15 minutes to identify the targets. The request was made to visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, when he was in New Delhi earlier this month.
