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97 Made-in-India drones
India has also developed its indigenous MALE RPA Tapas. On 27th June 2023, Tapas demonstrated 200th flight to the Tri services team for the first time at ATR Chitradurga & is now ready for user evaluation trials which is planned in second quarter of 2023.
Tactical Airborne Platform for Aerial Surveillance-Beyond Horizon-201 or TAPAS BH-201 is a completely indigenous MALE UAV. Every system that goes into the bird including engine is indigenous. The UAV features jam resistant data link system that enables the UAV to operate beyond the line of sight up to 1,000 kilometers.
Some of the important features of Tapas is robustness, reliability, secure data links, autonomous take-off and landing, and advanced ground control station. The same advanced ground control station can be used to fly other indigenous UAVs which will be Archer NG and Short-Range Weaponized UAV (SR-UAV).
Tapas will be able to operate at altitudes of up to 28000 feet, with an endurance of 18 plus hours. It is a highly reliable UAV with fail safe architecture employing redundant indigenous Hi-Rel subsystems. The ground operation suite is reconfigurable and highly advanced state of the art system for current as well as future UAVs.
The UAV has a range of 250 km and can carry payload of up to 350 kg. It is integrated with SATCOM and can carry EO/SAR & EW Payload.
On 17th July 2023, ANI has reported that Indian Defence forces are all set to acquire 97 made in India drone for ISR operation along the borders with China and Pakistan. The procurement will cost over Rs10,000 crore with Indian air force will be leading the procurement process for tri-services. Air force will be getting most of these drones for operation. While the name of the drone has not been stated in the report, it’s most likely going to be Tapas.
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