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India’s first Armed UAV “Rustom-I” with two HELINA missiles | idrw.org
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Saurav Jha a Prominent Journalist has tweeted what could be described as India’s First armed UAV. DRDO developed MALE Class Unmanned aerial vehicle Rustom-I has been pictured Taxing with Two 3rd generation fire-and-forget anti-tank missile “HELINA”.

HELINA is an Air launched version of the Nag missile which has been developed to be used from Aerial platforms like Helicopters, MALE & HALE UAVs and in future UCAVs.

DRDO had started feasibility study in 2013 on possibility to integrate HELINA missile into Rustom-I and have started Carriage trials and is still some months away from first flight which will be followed up with first firing of the missiles from the UAV.

HELINA is a third generation fire-and-forget anti-tank missile with top attack capability. The missile can strike its targets up to 4-7km and DRDO is also working on extended variant which will have capabilities to hit targets up to 20km and can be used from Fighter jets.
 
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