PAWS (Passive Airborne Warning System) is Elisra's IR Missile Approach Warning System (MAWS), specifically designed for enhancing helicopters and transport aircraft safety and survivability. It provides warning to aircrew in presence of hostile missiles and automatically activates onboard countermeasures (flares, DIRCM, etc…)
PAWS is an operational system which have been extensively tested, validated, serially manufactured, installed and operated by several countries include IAF.
PAWS is provisioned for enhanced situational awareness as well as small-arms fire detection capabilities via its SAPIR (Situational Awareness Panoramic IR) a built-in feature ,and SWAD (Small-arms fire Warning and Direction) upgrade.