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The current ongoing HALE program by ADE is solar powered.

Saurav Jha's Blog : Interview with Dr Avinash Chander, DRDO Chief and Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister

It will start weapon testing in 2017-18. Till then a weaponised Rustom-1 will do.

Rustom II delayed due to actuators. DRDO First flight not happening before the end of this year.

http://thumkar.blogspot.in/2014/06/drdo-seeks-advanced-electro-optical.html

http://thumkar.blogspot.in/2014/06/ade-initiates-structural-design.html

Cruiser II Mini UAV Tata Group looking for bigger defence sector pie - Financial Express

Black kite, Golden Hawk, Slybird and Pushpak mini UAVs.

Rustom is a R&DE-ADE (both DRDO labs) effort that will be manufactured under contract by BEL-HAL. HAL itself has it's own plans for UAVs. HAL scouts partner for new UAV family - SP's MAI There is also a small turbofan in development for UAVs called Laghu Shakti engine by HAL-GTRE which should...

As it turns out, there is no rush to arm Rustom 2, but they are arming Rustom 1, and introducing a conventional take off and landing version of Nishant UAV (currently truck launched) which would make it an analogue of Searcher II. Saurav Jha's Blog : Desi UAV efforts taking flight for India

Tata leads race to sell mini UAVs to Army - The Times of India

DRDO Kicks off Mission to Develop Surveillance Airship - The New Indian Express Seems like there is an even larger aerostat planned than Nakshatra. Chakshu- Small aerostat with EO payload Akashdeep- Medium sized aerostat with EO and Radar payload Nakshatra- Larger variant of Akshdeep...

I have the answer, but I will give you a few hints as to why Heron was ordered by the IAF and not Nishant. - What kind of landing and take off system is used by Heron which makes it special and what makes Nishant special ? - What kind of endurance do Heron and Nishant offer respectively? Once...

I won't answer this one. READ THE LAST FEW PAGES. Quit acting like someone with comprehension skills of an inbred paki (an average deaf and dumb forum poster). This forum is meant for technical discussion and not pointless whinging. If you want to whinge you know which forum to head to. If you...

Good to know that you can read. However if you would have read the last few useless pages of this useless forum by useless fanbois wasting precious bandwidth, posting useless reports by useless journalists who quote useless scientists who give useless periodic updates about the program that...

Did you even bother to read two posts above ? Are you that lazy ?

http://www.aeromag.in/sites/default/files/AM%20NOV%202013-%20dplow.pdf

Geopolitics magazine, July issue:- The CRPF had only one Heron UAV that was being operated by NTRO (flown from Hyderabad, as reported earlier in the media, because Air Force did not want to deploy it's UAV operators in hinterlands). CRPF is now looking into procuring 16 Nishant UAV for...

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/uavs-capable-of-launching-weapons-soon-drdo-chief/article5062289.ece