The Pakistan Air Force’s (PAF) National Aerospace Science & Technology Park (NASTP) revealed that it was developing nine new original radar/sensor programs, including a new passive radar, a multi-function radar, and an airborne early warning (AEW) radar.
The disclosure was made in a promotional PAF video recapping the visit of President Asif Ali Zardari at one of NASTP’s facilities.
In addition to new radar projects, NASTP also revealed that it upgraded over 40 radars for the PAF, the Pakistan Army (PA), the Pakistan Navy (PN), and other countries.
This push for sensor control stems from the mid-2010s, when the PAF began fielding its own proprietary tactical data-link (TDL) protocol, Link-17. It was likely at that time the PAF understood the value of pairing its own TDL stack with proprietary radar platforms, ideally from ‘end-to-end’ where the onboard fighter radar and AEW&C radar are both proprietary systems. Not only would they be from a single source, but that source would be Pakistani.
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