Indian website Mid Day reports that snipers will be used to shoot down any UAS that fly towards the Commonwealth Games site! Intelligence sources say terror attacks possible in high-security areas using aerial vehicles Delhi police is busy clearing the air. This after the Intelligence Bureau (IB) has received reports of probable attacks using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) during...
Controversy surrounds the Commonwealth Games,Team England chairman Sir Andrew Foster admits problems with the athletes’ village have left the competition “on a knife-edge” and facing “a critical 24 to 48 hours”. Scotland team officials delayed the departure of their first athletes to Delhi, having yesterday described their accommodation as “unsafe and unfit for human habitation”. Now it seems unmanned...
Agency reports have suggested that DRDO has begun working on unmanned combat air vehicles for a possible procurement by the Indian Air Force. Press Trust of India has quoted a senior DRDO official saying that work for the UCAV is in parallel progress in labs across the country. The following quotes are attributed to P.S. Subramanyan, Project Director of...
You can either shoo them away or shoot them to clear the flight path of landing aircraft. But since the country’s airports are not equipped with either means to prevent air accidents caused by bird strikes, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has thought up a novel way to scare away the pesky feathered creatures from the skies....
Indian Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has had a demonstration from Honeywell of the US for their unmanned micro air vehicle, T-Hawk, for real time situational awareness, in May this year in the jungles of Chhattisgarh. The seven kg heavy micro vehicle, on display in Indesec-2010, specializes in pyramidical surveillance, and has an altitude range of 10,000 feet, and...
MKU has developed India’s first indigenous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle christened ‘TERP-II’. It will be showcasing a prototype of TERP-II at the Defexpo-2010 which is undergoing advanced testing routines at this moment. It plans to officially launch the ‘TERP-II’ by the middle of this year. The TERP II is a quick deployment and easy to operate micro UAV. It is...
