Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

IIT-K grads develop UAVs

'Seven students of Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur have developed an innovative multi-purpose unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a low altitude surveillance system (LASS) for reconnaissance and surveillance missions, and medium altitude long endurance (MALE) vehicles for scientific missions, terrain mapping and disaster management.

The USP of their technological innovation is that LASS weighs less than three kgs and can be bungee launched or hand launched with a range upto 50 kms and is difficult to detect by radar. It can operate at night in an altitude of 300ft to 1000 ft. MALE weighs less than 15 kg including a payload of upto 5 kg and it has a range of 2500 km operating at a maximum altitude of 30,000 feet. '

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