Pakistan inducted the first of four Saab-2000 Airborne Early Warning & Control (AWACS) aircrafts on December 8. The system can reportedly detect high and medium altitude flying aircraft, as well as low-level flying objects over land and sea at extended ranges.1

• 1. Pakistan Air Force, ‘PAF Receives its First Airborne Early Warning & Control Aircraft’, December 8, 2009, at http://www.paf.gov.pk/news/uploaded/saab.pdf