Nishant, DRDO's unmanned air vehicle, has passed a series of confirmatory trials conducted recently by the Army, the Defence Research and Development Organisation has announced.
The tests were conducted at Chandan Range at Pokhran before the Army took delivery of four Nishant UAVs along with ground systems.
“The performance of the pay load sensors, in particular, has been better than the imported UAVs with the Army. It is expected that more of such equipment will soon be purchased by the users,” a release said.
Nishant can be used in battlefield reconnaissance during day and night; surveillance, counter-insurgency operations, target tracking and localisation and correction of artillery fire.
It has been designed and developed by DRDO lab Aeronautical Development Establishment, Flight Control Systems and Simulators, along with other sister labs.