Aero India 2023: When India depends on Israeli drones, a look at top of the line 'India made' ones

From 'pseudo-satellites' to loitering ammunitions, from Nano drones to Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) drones. Manu Pubby takes you through top-of-the-line drones on display at Aero India 2023. Watch

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[rahulchaudhary-xgvz]

In the domain of Drone tech Indian private sector is proving to be a game changer. It is just mindboggling that how our drone tech has been improved from the past few years. Amazing

[k-map]

What Newspace is doing in the UAV space is incredible 👍👍👍

[rickgolder]

Newspace and Garuda can dominate the drone market, if they can be relevant and provide good results.

[mainjabbolungaatrykarungaa]

So proud, happy these sectors are opened for private sector, will take our country to another level🎉

[asw]

Look, I am an American and we may or may not always see or be on the same side. But everything I see from most other countries expos and such, is no development of hardware. And we in many ways we have made the same mistake, although overall probably better suited than many countries. Butt if a countries industry is serious, the core components are the key....and you should focus on development of the hardware in house. Almost anyone can purchase the various kinds of automation components on the open market. And bring them together with cool software. But if you don't own the entire chain, if you can't produce the entire chain of components in house, then you're wasting your time and vulnerable.

You need to produce your own optics. You need to produce your own sensors. You need to produce your own automation components, motors, servos etc etc etc, the list is endless. You need to produce your own microchips. You need to produce your own everything. And not just the optics, chips hundreds and even thousands of private companies and industries that support nearly every single one. Every young person, every startup wants to hop on the....do something cool with drones and such. But think about all the specialized industry, tooling and just R&D that must go into just creating optics, image sensors, etc.

I've tried to look into some of the companies I've seen in some of these videos and what I see is a bunch of memorandums of understandings signed, probably to shop for funding and collect grant money. Which, more or less, like there's a MOU that was signed between NewSpace and Honeywell. Where Honeywell more or less says its willing to provide its navigation system. These are/have been signed with many foreign, to India, foreign countries to provide basically all the actual technology. And then what these companies are doing are using it to create products that they don't truly or fully own. Slapping some control systems, navigation tech, motors etc etc on/in a frame and making it work is certainly not without merit. But that is not tech being made, in this case in India or w/e. Theres a ton of this kind of stuff going on all over and there certainly is a place and reason to do it. But the most crucial and critical aspects in terms of if some of this tech is for a countries defense....is to design your own tech and own it.

[karinaTzy]

I am really Impressed of Israel, especially in science and technology.🇮🇳♥️🇮🇱

[kirankumarbarik]

Still we are years behind the major technology innovation, we are following others footprint and developing on our own. We need to think out of the box to develop technologies and fund such innovation by believing on them to get ahead of developped countries. Jai Hind 🙏🏻

[ranabanik]

all these development will be fruitless if India doesn't manufacture the brains of the drones: semiconductor chips.
Though these hi-tech drones are assembled in India but the chips and other equipment are imported which can be choked in future. So I hope Indian entrepreneurs and tech affiliates look into this angle also.

God bless.

[Astrashastra]

the ukraine war proved the importance of drones in modern warfare, its good we are working to create indian made drones.

[KFHGJVIN]

If a similarly developed nation such as Turkey can make the Bayraktar drone, I don't see why India should not be able to indigenously develop drones for use by the Indian military.

[vedanshsinghal]

actually drone are very important weapons for modern warfare and india already understood this and improving their drone which is really good not only for war purpose but drone are used in many other aspect like delivery, shooting, travelling, etc. so it is good to see made in india drone are roking and shoking the world . jai hind

[sandeepsaxena]

Our engineers are doing a phenomenal work, they're right up there in terms of innovation and cutting edge technology but, aesthetics of the products are always wanting, they just don't look good, do something about that as well.

[kayg.vegan.singapore]

Good! Indians are started becoming "Inventors" in many range of products!

[flbl]

Manu sir the Great. Newspace the Best.

[wellbeing]

I don't have any hope from our indian made drones. What is amusing is iran which is blacklisted has made drones very capable even so when chip is high demand. We struggle a lot to make a decent drone with proven efficiency. Iran turkey have spearheaded in this area. It's shame we stuck with prototypes even now

[Joy-sisu]

Very informative, most required and cut down on human requirement, specially it covers total area of 360 degrees plus vertical standby and vigilant day and night with software command. Totally amazing.

[balasuryaglopol]

The background noise should be reduced, so that it is not distracting but appealing

[rkg]

DRDO should design drones or vehicles which look more aerodynamic and beautifull

[SaurabhSarang]

All raw material should be and must be manufactured ground up for such security drones. And more importantly they should not be hacked

[aakashjana]

For many of these "drones" they make me think of my local RC plane hobby shop exhibition. So many of these models are developed using motors from Chinese vendors with the exception of hopefully big companies like Tata.
Large amounts of electronic componentry is from vendors that source parts from China. Drone software is largely open source, unlike fighter jet tech. If you have money, time and some patience even you can follow along 1 of many online tutorials to make drones that will do a lot of things for you.