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The induction ceremony of newly launched AWACS (Airborne Warning and  More

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The AWACS is the first of three units that Israel Aerospace Industries agreed to sell to India as part of a 2004 deal involving India, Israel and Russia. The deal with Israel was worth 1.1 billion dollars. The AWACS involves the mounting of surveillance equipment on the top of Russian Ilyushin-76 aircraft.

Receipt of the AWACS will also provide a deterrent to any threat from China on India's eastern frontier, defence officials say. The delivery of the remaining two AWACS is likely to be completed by the end of 2011, other government officials said.

Senior Indian air force officials said the first Phalcon will be deployed in the northern city of Agra, which is also home to India's mainstay Ilyushin military transport aircraft fleet. The Phalcon AWACS can simultaneously track nearly 250 flying objects within a radius of 800 kilometres (500 miles) and also has a "look-down" capability allowing it to monitor movements on the ground or at sea, officials say.

India is the second Asian country after China to acquire the AWACS.

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