Hybrid UAVs: The Advent of Responsive Combat Capability

Sometime in April 2022, TechEagle, a private start-up firm involved in drone-based logistics, launched the ‘Vertiplane-X3’, claimed to be the fastest hybrid e-VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) indigenous Unmanned Aerial…

By Brig Arvind Dhananjayan (Retd)

Shahed-136: Challenging the Air Defence Systems

Iran has denied selling drones to Russia, but images making the rounds on social media confirm that Russian forces have attacked Ukrainian cities using Shahed-136 suicide drones made in Iran.…

By Prof (Dr) DK Pandey 

India Needs A Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Revolution

It is Balakot 2.0 kind of night, with a different target and different platform. It would be remembered as Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) night. A swarm of decoy UAVs took…

By Cdr Sandeep Dhawan (Retd)

Surveillance along LAC to get a boost, Indian Army plans deployment of latest Heron UAV

Indian Army has been upgrading its UAV fleet and presently operates the Israeli UAVs of tactical and MALE (Medium Altitude Long Endurance) categories apart from the smaller drones and quadcopters…