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1. yes…the story does not make sense. Endurance and altitude are two basic requirements of any end user. In fact that is what characterizes a drone as MALE or HALE. It cannot be that the ADE did not know work on this for a decade. How can they build a drone for 10+ years and flight test with...

Still thinking of Porkis? It is over for them for some time. The real adversary is China. Focus on them and get our technologies to world beating standards. Our focus should be to build a broad and deep MIC.

What about TASL? They say they can build a whole plane now. They just bought design IP from a German company. A step up to drones shouldn’t be too hard then especially is they can get their hands on drone engines...

We need a HALE that can fly at 70000 feet - beyond a SAM’s max alt. Looks like LM is working on SR72 drone, a successor to SR71 Blackbird which did recon at 70000 feet at Mach3 speed. NG is working on beyond SAM RQ180 drone as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_SR-72...

N Not really. A lot of Venture funded startups are all about R&D. They are not about profits. Most startups go IPO despite massive losses. Most technology startups including Amazon had massive losses yet had successful IPOs. If India’s private companies can come up with a viable, high quality...

1. Interesting to note that the MQ9Bs were actually NOT deployed in the LAC skirmish. Again extreme conservatism by Indian defense setup. https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/india-to-buy-30-us-predator-drones-for-3-bn-to-counter-china-pakistan-121031000515_1.html 2. The...

Actually the Eitan/Heron TP has a much higher endurance (30+ hours vs 14 hours) than the MQ9B. However the Predator B has a slightly higher (50000 vs 46000) max service ceiling. Both are HALE and not MALE. I guess we are buying HALE for surveillance at Himalayan heights. Also, I believe TAPAS...