ABHYAS- High-speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT)
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Overview
- News in Brief
- About ABHYAS
Why in the News?
DRDO carries out successful flight trials of High-speed Expendable Aerial Target ‘ABHYAS’ from Integrated Test Range, Chandipur
News in Brief
- Four flight trials of were successfully carried out by the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) from the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur in Odisha.
- The trials were conducted with four different mission objectives in a revised robust configuration using a single booster designed by Advanced Systems Laboratory, Hyderabad to provide reduced launch acceleration.
About ABHYAS
- Abhyas is a High-speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) being developed at ADE.
- The project was sanctioned with an initial DRDO funding of ₹15 crore.
- It is powered by a gas turbine engine to sustain a long endurance flight at subsonic speed.
- It can cover a distance of 400 km.
- It offers a realistic threat scenario for the practice of weapon systems.
- It has a Radar cross-section and a visual and Infrared augmentation system required for weapon practice.
- It has a laptop-based Ground Control System with which the aircraft can be integrated and pre-flight checks, data recording during the flight, replay after the flight and post-flight analysis can be carried out.
- Abhyas uses MEMS gyroscope based inertial navigation system for guidance and a flight control computer linked to ground station.
- ABHYAS requires minimum logistics and is cost-effective compared to imported equivalents.
- Abhyas is designed for autonomous flying with the help of an autopilot, under development at ADE.
- Abhyas was successfully flight-tested on 13 May 2019.
- ABHYAS is ready for production.
- The system has export potential and can be offered to friendly countries.
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