Project Cheetah to Arm Heron and Searcher Drones Revived
The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) gave its go-ahead, on 11 August 2020, for the purchase of equipment worth...
DRDO’s Life Sciences Activities in Ladakh
Since its inception, DRDO has been playing a pivotal role in fostering India’s growth in the defence sector. Being the R&D wing of Ministry...
UNMANNED SYSTEMS: UAV News
Army Issues RFI for Micro RPAS
The defence ministry intends to procure 150 micro Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) for the Army. A Request for...
UNMANNED SYSTEMS: India-China Drone Capabilities Compared
With hundreds of thousands of deaths and ever-increasing rates of infection, the world is going through one of the worst pandemics in recent history....
UNMANNED SYSTEMS: UAV News
Army Issues RFI for Micro RPAS
The defence ministry intends to procure 150 micro Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) for the Army. A Request for...
Drones Pressed in to Arrest Locust Attack
Swarms of locusts invaded vast swathes of land in India from 11 April. Several districts of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh were affected. Many districts...
DRDO News June 2020
MRSAM Range
Inspired by the development of 150-km range of the Barak-8ER (Extended-Range) surface-to-air missile (SAM) system by its developmental partner, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI),...
Conditional Exemption for Using Drones to Fight Coronavirus
In a bid to provide fast track conditional exemptions to government agencies for Covid-19 related remotely piloted aircraft system (RPA)/ drone operations, aviation authorities...
Loitering Munition Review
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) issued a request for information (RFI) to procure 100 loitering munition systems for the Indian Army on 6 March.
The...
DRDO News
First Glimpse of Omni Role Combat Aircraft
The first rendering of the twin-engined Omni Role Combat Aircraft (ORCA), sometimes called the Medium Combat Aircraft, was...