India UAV Programs

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In a separate tri-services endeavour, known as ‘Project Cheetah’, about 70 existing Heron-1s belonging to the IA, IAF and Indian Navy (IN) will be jointly upgraded to Heron-2 configuration by IAI and the MoD-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) and will be known as the Archer-NG.

However, this MALE-UAV variant will be powered by a 177hp Austro-330EP diesel engine and will contain flight and mission avionics that were originally developed by the DRDO’s LRDE and DARE laboratories for the ADE-developed Tapas-BH MALE-UAV.


@Gessler @500 et al. any thoughts? The larger article gives program background so far.
 

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Indian Special Operations Forces have published a video of testing Warmate small loitering munitions, manufactured by the Polish company WB Electronics. Earlier it was reported that India had purchased 100 kamikaze drones of this type. Drones of this type are also used by Turkey and Ukraine. Warmate drones were developed in 2014 and are designed for surveillance, tracking and target identification, and it is also used as a kamikaze drone. The drone has a range of up to 10 km; if the target is not detected, the drone can return to base. The drone can stay in the air for up to 30 minutes and reaches speeds of up to 150 km/h, rising to a height of up to 500 meters. The maximum take-off weight of the drone is 4 kg, the drone is equipped with warheads with an explosive mass of up to 800 grams.

 

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Any update on the india US airlaunched UAV? Reports stated that it should have been tested at the end of this year
 

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Tailless flying-wing testbed in flight

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