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India is a peninsula, we are not just bordering china, we have bangladesh, our own internal situations, NE region, coastline and even rescue ops. If anyone was serious there was utility for those drones, once with public-private model they should have evolved. I shared one word yesterday that...

There are countless places where Rustom 1 could have been deployed but as always armed forces have no vision. Why not use them for surveillance in naxal regions or coastal regions of India? If IAF or IN or IA had any interest in promoting and not giving a step motherly treatment to our product...

SWIFT is more real than any private industry UAV/UCAV in India afaik. Same goes for Rustom 1 and rustom 2. DRDO made Rustom 1 had a maiden flight in 2010. It is more or less similar to TB-2 drone btw. If army wanted it could have been pursued further. Rustom 2 in 2018, one or two crashes...

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DRDO and ISRO should have combined funding of atleast 10 billion minimum, no question asked. ISRO chairman in 2014 stated the requirement for close to 4 billion budget for ISRO even today they only get 1.9 billion...

How is DRDO stopping private sector from innovating? Yes i do agree that some may consider it waste of resources and that may or may not be fair point but if they don't do and private sector doesn't care then we will be stuck in a limbo. Coming to drones, mini quadcopter and even surveillance...

DRDO is consortium of labs spread around the country, if they think they can do it let them. Their record with TOT to private players in the past seem good too. What's the issue here?

Eh i don't think 'private' industry is the only salvation considering we have SWIFT and GHATAK going with decent progress, i mean we already saw swift last year, these are totally by DRDO not some 'muh private god saviour Jesus ultra max pro'. Even though we didn't induct Rustom 1 in large...

CATS-Infinity is a dual-use High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS) platform, powered by solar radiation, intended to stay airborne for months, for providing persistent high-res pictures of the ground, as well as continuous 5G coverage in remote areas or during natural calamities...

remember that robodog by IISC? Here's another video of it.