At least six Hawks are now based at Labuan airbase together with the occasional rotation of Hornets and Sukhoi squadrons. RMAF Hawk M40-25 which carries the Lahad Datu mission markings.Īs had been reported before, RMAF is planning to base a Hawk squadron in Sabah as part of the plan to boost the security of Sabah following the Lahad Datu incursion.
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Unfortunately, it may well be limited to the 208s only and not across the whole fleet as planned originally.
HAWK MISSILE COMMANDER JOE UPGRADE
However as the Hawks especially the 208s are currently heavily involved in the operations to ensure the security of Sabah, the bean counters may well be persuaded to release the funds needed for the upgrade programme. It was the same solution that went unfunded in RMK10 so in the current fiscally challenging situation the same thing could repeated. By all accounts the upgrades planned are limited mostly involving the cockpit displays, HUDs (of course the mission computers will be changed as part of the upgrades) and the RWR.
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Those I spoke to at the airshow were optimistic that the RMAF own Hawk upgrades will be signed at DSA 2016 in April but cautioned the recent economic headwinds may well scuttled the deal – yet again. Once the announcement was made I knew I had my story already. By coincidence (ahead of the Finmeccanica announcement of the Indonesian AF contract) at the Singapore Airshow, I spent part of the day talking with industry sources on the Hawk upgrades. RMAF Hawk 208 M40-34 taking off during Eks Paradise 2/2015 at Labuan airbase.įast forward to 2016, we know that the Hawk upgrade was not funded in RMK10 and even in RMK11, funding for the programme remained uncertain. FInmeccanica.Ĭomprising four wide band spiral antennas, two digital detectors, a signal processor and a cockpit display, Seer is “capable of identifying and prioritising complex RF signals in a hostile threat environment”, it added. “The RWR met all of the jointly agreed objectives, with Seer being able to detect radars at ranges that were an order of magnitude greater than those achieved by older-generation systems,” the company said at the time. RMAF Hawk 208s tail number 36 and 34 in the dispersal shed at Labuan airbase.Īccording to the release, the company was confident as getting the contract as it had supported flight trials of the new equipment (in 2010) with a Malaysian Hawk. It was the same RWR as the Indonesian AF contract, which Finmeccanica described as the self-protection equipment that had been designed as a drop-in replacement for BAE’s Sky Guardian 200 RWR system, previously installed on platforms including the Hawk. It will be the same configuration if the Hawk upgrades is funded. The SEER installation on the RMAF Hawk as envisioned by Finmeccanica back in 2010. It also includes an option to supply additional systems in the future.īack in 2010, it was widely reported that Finmeccanica (then known as Selex Galileo) had expected to receive a contract to equip RMAF Hawks, both the 108s and 208s, with a new radar warning receiver (RWR) system, the SEER.
HAWK MISSILE COMMANDER JOE INSTALL
The contract requires the company to install the SEER RWR on the BAE Systems Mk 209 Hawk of the Indonesian Air Force.
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SHAH ALAM: At the recent Singapore Airshow 2016, Finmeccanica announced that it had secured a contract to provide radar warning receiver (RWR) to the Indonesian Air Force. Yazmi personal mount Hawk Mk 208 which carries his callsign Caser with complete with bomb marking pictured at Labuan airbase in late 2015.