Kadet Defence Systems to develop India’s First Tactical UAV with an eye on Civilian Uses

Kadet Defence Systems to develop India’s First Tactical
UAV with an eye on Civilian Uses
Indian unmanned air vehicle manufacturer, Kadet Defence Systems is developing a Tactical
UAV with an eye on mining and prospecting uses and military and homeland security
applications. The company says negotiations are under way with an undisclosed country for
using the UAV in its mineral exploration program.
Christened “UAV Garuda”, Avdhesh Khaitan, CEO of Kadet, says we were keen on exploring
civilian applications with our products and this development gave us the impetus to develop
Garuda. “India should be in the market soon for a tactical UAV in which case we would be able
to offer a mature market ready product,” he says.
Consolidating from the contract win for its JX2 Aerial Target to be used by the Army Air
Defence, this development would aid our efforts to lead in the Indian market with indigenously
developed products and would offer a Brigade Commander his personal “eye in the sky”, says
Khaitan. We are expecting to perform airframe test flights in early December.
The Kolkata based company has selected the popular twin boom design over a large blended
wing body design as payload integration is easier. Sea variants of the UAV Garuda shall also be
developed with launch and sea recovery capabilities.
UAV Garuda will have an endurance of over 6 hours with a range of 200 Km. Khaitan says the
aircraft will be equipped for ISR and also be used as a Primary UAV for its other smaller in
development air launched U