Last of the four Nishants in service Crashes

[xyxmt]

Mk one fail mk2 bana lo boht easy hey Govt ko uloo banana, abhey first version fail tu dosra double fail ho gha.

like this one guy I knew kept failing BA courses and after three tries one time he seriously asked me, you think its a good idea to do MA first and then do BA, it will become easier after i do MA

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Ram naam satiya hai... RIP.

 

[Areesh]

We believe in ourselves that is why we are MOVING Forward as a Nation

The progress is RAPID in some fields and slow in others

BTW do you believe your country can achieve ANYTHING that INDIA has TODAY
even THIRTY years from NOW

You seem to be high on supa puwa India sh!t. Keep smoking that weed.

 

[desimorty]

The project was poorly conceived although it was more funded technology demonstrator ie not a big ticket item like LCA, ICBM etc...
Nishant's parachute concept was the flaw. I don't know if any parachute recovered UAV being so heavy.
Anyway below is the wheeled variant, can take off from smooth roads.

Older Parachute recovered Variant

Anybody else feels like it looks like a poor mans cruise missile?

 

[Maarkhoor]

The project was poorly conceived although it was more funded technology demonstrator ie not a big ticket item like LCA, ICBM etc...
Nishant's parachute concept was the flaw. I don't know if any parachute recovered UAV being so heavy.
Anyway below is the wheeled variant, can take off from smooth roads.

Older Parachute recovered Variant

After 20 year you people discovered tjis even this latest varient failed in front of DRDO official.

 

[xyxmt]

The project was poorly conceived although it was more funded technology demonstrator ie not a big ticket item like LCA, ICBM etc...
Nishant's parachute concept was the flaw. I don't know if any parachute recovered UAV being so heavy.
Anyway below is the wheeled variant, can take off from smooth roads.

still looks like some welder in Kabarya market put it together

 

[desimorty]

After 20 year you people discovered tjis even this latest varient failed in front of DRDO official

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Good job. For you.

 

[Sheikh Rauf]

Aww ..khud lar lo pehlay UAV say to poocho usay itni zoor say gir ker choout to nahi lagi..
Is mein aik chotay kad ka poilet rakh lain shayed vo achi terhan handle ker lay...
Is terhan agay barogay to hum 30 nahi 100 saloon mein tum tak nahi pohanch saktay..
Keep trying till ...... u fall again.

 

[Guynextdoor2]

The project was poorly conceived although it was more funded technology demonstrator ie not a big ticket item like LCA, ICBM etc...
Nishant's parachute concept was the flaw. I don't know if any parachute recovered UAV being so heavy.
Anyway below is the wheeled variant, can take off from smooth roads.

Older Parachute recovered Variant

Anybody else feels like it looks like a poor mans cruise missile?

I guess the cats were meant for rough terrains where they can't take off on flat roads.

 

[desimorty]

I guess the cats were meant for rough terrains where they can't take off on flat roads.

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Well its a phaze project, technology vs funding vs resources
First phaze, get the wireless technology, platform, and emergency parachute.
Next phase is obvious. The same cycle was followed by China and many other countries.

 

[Khafee]

Keep repeating the same lines in every thread and who knows even you might start believing in it.

I think it was George Orwell who also said that

 

[Super Commando Dhruva]

Army sources said the UAV, the last of the four inducted in 2011, crashed near Pokhran in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan.

NEW DELHI: There were meant to be the eyes and ears of the Indian Army - a state of the art unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) meant to give Army commanders high definition images of a battlefield, help designate targets, and provide Electronic and Signal Intelligence information.

Instead, the home-grown Nishant UAV, developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is a flop with all four aircraft in service with the Indian Army having crashed. And now, the Army has had enough. They want no more Nishant drones from the DRDO. Each drone had cost the Army Rs. 22 crore.

The last of the four Nishants in service with the Army went down near the Pokhran range in Rajasthan today. According to Army sources, "Today's crash is due to a technical glitch." Just 15 days back, another Nishant had gone down, also for a technical reason. Earlier in April, two other Nishant drones had crash landed near the India-Pakistan border near Jaisalmer.

Under development for two decades, the Nishant, designed to fly for four and a half hours, was first inducted into the Indian Army in 2011 after successfully completing confirmatory trials. Launched by a catapult system, the Nishant is recovered after it deploys a parachute at the end of the each mission.

For their part, the DRDO has blamed the user for poor handling of the system, a point categorically denied by the Army.

The DRDO was banking on the success of the Nishant drone and was also developed a wheeled version of the system called the Panchi. The future of this programme now remains unclear.

India's armed forces uses a variety of UAVs including Israeli built Heron and Searcher aircraft which are larger and significantly more capable that the Nishant in its present state of development. A smaller drone, called the Nethra which was developed by graduates of the Indian Institute of Technology is also in use with the forces and is widely used by police and paramiltiary forces and the National Disaster Relief Force.

Homegrown Nishant Drone's Perfect Crash Record

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