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NAL gets India's first facility to test Micro-Air Vehicles - Bangalore - DNA
India's Rs 80 crore national Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) programme to design and develop MAV has got a boost with the setting up of a Micro Air Vehicle Aerodynamics Research Tunnel in the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) campus in the city -- the first of its kind in India to test fixed-, flapping- and rotary-wing MAVs in the 500 mm (50- cm) wingspan category.
The Union home ministry is planning to technologically beef up internal security to fight terror and naxalism within the country's borders through low-intensity, contained conflicts.
And it is looking at MAVs for the purpose due to which the MAV programme was kick-started.
The national programme is a joint initiative of Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Department of Science and Technology, Centre for Science and Industrial Research (CSIR), NAL, private industries and academia. A few products have already been developed by DRDO laboratories along with the private industry, like the autonomous Unmanned Air Vehicle, Netra, which featured in the Bollywood movie, 3 Idiots.
This has already been inducted by Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Border Security Force (BSF). Similarly, NAL has also developed three MAVs: Black Kite, Golden Hawk and Pushpak. The Black Kite -- a 300mm wingspan fixed wing autonomous MAV with an endurance of 30 minutes -- has an autopilot system developed indigenously.
Golden Hawk is a fixed-wing MAV. The two prototypes developed by NAL are based on conventional and the blended wing. That apart city-based National Design and Research Forum (NDRF) is also involved in the research and development MAV's in the 300 mm to 1000 mm class.
India's Rs 80 crore national Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) programme to design and develop MAV has got a boost with the setting up of a Micro Air Vehicle Aerodynamics Research Tunnel in the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) campus in the city -- the first of its kind in India to test fixed-, flapping- and rotary-wing MAVs in the 500 mm (50- cm) wingspan category.
The Union home ministry is planning to technologically beef up internal security to fight terror and naxalism within the country's borders through low-intensity, contained conflicts.
And it is looking at MAVs for the purpose due to which the MAV programme was kick-started.
The national programme is a joint initiative of Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Department of Science and Technology, Centre for Science and Industrial Research (CSIR), NAL, private industries and academia. A few products have already been developed by DRDO laboratories along with the private industry, like the autonomous Unmanned Air Vehicle, Netra, which featured in the Bollywood movie, 3 Idiots.
This has already been inducted by Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Border Security Force (BSF). Similarly, NAL has also developed three MAVs: Black Kite, Golden Hawk and Pushpak. The Black Kite -- a 300mm wingspan fixed wing autonomous MAV with an endurance of 30 minutes -- has an autopilot system developed indigenously.
Golden Hawk is a fixed-wing MAV. The two prototypes developed by NAL are based on conventional and the blended wing. That apart city-based National Design and Research Forum (NDRF) is also involved in the research and development MAV's in the 300 mm to 1000 mm class.
