Nishant uav of Indian Armed Forces

The DRDO Nishant is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) developed by India's ADE (Aeronautical Development Establishment) a branch of DRDO for the Indian Armed Forces. The Nishant UAV is primarily tasked with intelligence gathering over enemy territory and also for recce, surveillance, target designation, artillery fire correction, damage assessment, ELINT and SIGINT. The UAV has an Endurance of 4 hrs & 30min. Nishant has completed development Phase and User trials.
The 380 kg Nishant UAV requires rail-launching from a hydro-pneumatic launcher and recovered by a Parachute System. Launches at a velocity of 45 m/s are carried out in 0.6 seconds with 100 kW power and subsequent launches can be carried out in intervals of 20 minutes. The Mobile Hydro-Pneumatic Launcher (MHPL) system mounted on a Tatra truck weighs 14,000 kg and boasts of a life cycle of 1000 launches before requiring overhaul.Nishant is one of the few UAVs in the world in its weight-class capable of being catapult-launched and recovered by using parachute, thus eliminating the need for a runway as in case of conventional take-off and landing with wheels.

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[sKyDrifT94]

US UAVs already proved that they blowed pakis ass..

Now its time for india to wipe PAKIs

[stalkingalizee]

@0synesthete0 It is a poor knock-off of the Searcher UAV without an autonomous landing system.

[0synesthete0]

@stalkingalizee as is this nishant prototype. the uavs delivered by ade to the army in feb have classified optical specifications.

[stalkingalizee]

@0synesthete0 2nd gen is obsolete

[0synesthete0]

@stalkingalizee yup, 2nd gen pnvs 

[stalkingalizee]

@0synesthete0 Makes sense, it is 2nd gen FLIR.

[0synesthete0]

@stalkingalizee nope its manufactured by ADE/DRDO

[stalkingalizee]

Is that an Israeli optical package?

[MrAmardeep123456]

@kusumlata100 pagal hai kya