India shelves biggest project to develop advanced UAV

The initial deadline for DRDO’s Tapas project was August 2016, but there were multiple problems with the increase in the UAV’s “all-up weight” to an unwieldy 2,850kg as well the imported engine and payload issues, which led to several time overruns and cost revision to Rs 1,786 crore. The Tapas-BH (tactical aerial platform for advanced surveillance-beyond horizon) or Tapas-201 drone did clock around 200 flights, which also saw at least two crashes, but could not meet the preliminary services qualitative requirements (PSQRs) that specified “essential and desirable” parameters.


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