DRDO’s Rustom-2 Drone Takes-off, India Goes for Armed Heron
Rustom-2 is capable of carrying different combinations of payloads depending on the mission objectives including synthetic aperture radar.
DRDO’s Rustom-2 Drone Takes-off, India Goes for Armed Heron
Overcoming the initial program setbacks, the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) on Friday flight tested the Rustom-2 medium altitude long endurance indigenous prototype drone and achieved eight hours of flying at an altitude of 16000 feet at Chitradurga, Karnataka. The prototype is expected to achieve a height of 26000 feet and endurance of 18 hours by 2020 end. Rustom-2 is capable of carrying different combinations of payloads depending on the mission objectives including synthetic aperture radar, electronic intelligence systems and situational awareness systems. It has a satellite communication link to relay situation in the battle theatre on real time basis. “ The Rustom-2 had one hour of fuel left after eight hours of test flying at Challakere aeronautical test range in Chitradurga district of Karanataka and had achieved the test flight ceiling,” said a senior official. Also Read: India test-fires Rudram 1, its first anti-radiation missile to kill enemy radars While …
