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India’s Armed Drone Fleet ( Source- The Diplomat / Author- Saurav Jha)

Rostom-1 UAV ( Source- Wikimedia Commons / Author- Kaushal Mehta) Source- The Diplomat Author- Saurav Jha With even Pakistan now sporting an armed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed with Chinese assistance, India has decided to accelerate the development of its own weaponized drone fleet. The process of weaponizing an indigenously developed UAV has commenced and the elements required to operate an armed drone fleet, such as a high accuracy satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) and dedicated military communication satellites, are being put in place anyway. Work is also underway on a stealthy unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV). Despite this, India still has to make some progress on the collision avoidance technology needed to give its drones the flexibility to use civilian airspace. It will also need to increase satellite bandwidth considerably to increase the tempo of armed UAV flights. In the next few years limited use of drone strikes near India’s border

Demo on ATOL Role of Rustom-1 UAV ( Copy Right @ The Express News Service)

Rustom-1 ( Image credits- Wikimedia commons/ Author- Kaushal Mehta) BANGALORE: Defence scientists at the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) are closing in on enabling the country’s Rustom-1 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the automatic take-off and landing (ATOL) capability. The ATOL configuration, to be demonstrated by this yearend, would increase the endurance and payload-carrying capacity of the UAV. Insiders linked to the project told Express that the ATOL feature would add more teeth to the Rustom-1 while undertaking prolonged missions. “We will be able to carry more fuel for missions, which require the UAV to be airborne for longer durations. Instead of more fuel, different types of payloads can be integrated on the UAV, which will give it an additional operational advantage. At present, we are in the process of evaluating some of the sensors required for the ATOL implementation. Extensive real-time simulation has been initiated on the UAV flight simulator to de