In a major boost to enhancing indigenous unmanned surveillance capabilities of defence forces, the Indian Air Force is moving a proposal to the Centre to buy 10 Tapas drones, officials said on Sunday.
In a boost for made-in-India weapon systems, the Indian Navy is going to place orders for four Tapas drones built in India by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
The DRDO is continuing with its project to further develop the Tapas medium-altitude, long endurance (MALE) drone in which one of the three services has shown interest to use them around the Andaman and Nicobar Islands for operations.
Tactical Airborne Platform for Aerial Surveillance-Beyond Horizon-201 or Tapas BH-201 is a long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle that used to be previously referred to as Rustom-II.
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], January 10(ANI): The handing over ceremony of Retractable Landing Gear Systems for Tapas and SWiFT drones and 18 types of filters for P-75 Submarine took place on Sunday at the Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment (CVRDE), Chennai.