Ghatak is DRDO's programme to build an Indian stealth unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) — a tailless, flying-wing jet drone designed to carry weapons internal…
The DAC, chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, cleared Acceptance of Necessity for the Remotely Piloted Strike Aircraft alongside the S-400 system, Medium Transport…
GTRE reportedly handed over the first production-standard Dry Kaveri (D1) engine, entering baseline validation and endurance testing — a step toward the Ministry of Defe…
A SWiFT test flight demonstrated take-off and landing using only surveyed GPS coordinates, with no ground-based radar or piloted guidance — the seventh developmental tri…
DRDO's Autonomous Flying Wing Technology Demonstrator (SWiFT) completed its first flight in fully autonomous mode on July 1, 2022 — take-off, waypoint navigation and a s…
A scaled-down technology demonstrator, SWiFT, was reportedly sanctioned at a cost of roughly ₹70 crore, alongside a broader reported allocation of around ₹23,100 crore f…
ADE, under DRDO, was commissioned to carry out a feasibility study for an Indian UCAV — the Autonomous Unmanned Research Aircraft (AURA) project, first publicly reported…
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