BENGALURU: Close on the heels of Rustom-II, India’s indigenously developed long-endurance combat-capable drone successfully completing its maiden-flight, DRDO today decided to produce 10 such unmanned aircraft for induction into the Indian armed forces in the future.
“We have decided to produce 10 pilot less or unmanned aircraft like Rustom-II, aimed at giving a boost to India’s development programme for UAV,” DRDO Director S Christopher told reporters here.
He said, “Young DRDO engineers would work hard to make it successful. It would, at least, take one year to do it. We will also seek to get an order from Indian armed forces.”
Christopher said development of nine prototypes of the advanced Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) would be done after the successful flight of the first such drone.
“The first flight will be followed by development of nine more prototypes of the advanced UAV for testing, after which the certification process will start,” he said. (AGENCIES)
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