Falcon Project of DRDO

Can anybody tell me about objectives of Falcon Project of DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organization)?

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

Under project FALCON- a Remotely Piloted Vehicle (RPV), Nishant has been developed as per the General Staff Qualitative Requirement (GSQR) issued by the Army.

Objectives:
The objectives of the project include battle field surveillance, reconnaissance, real time engagement of targets by artillery fire and damage assessment.

RPV has been developed to carry electro-optical payloads on board for surveillance, target acquisition and target tracking.

The field configuration of NISHANT system comprises, Air Vehicles, Ground Control Station, Antenna Tracking System, Launcher and mission Support Vehicle.

Till date more than 84 development flights have been carried out.

70 of these development flights have been towards validation of the air vehicle, flying and handling characteristics and to verify the flight control and navigation systems.

Summer trials have been successfully conducted by DRDO for Army evaluation. These include two shake down sorties and 12 user trial flights in realistic operational conditions at Pokharan. Limited Series Production will commence shortly.

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Contacts
Director, DESIDOC
Metcalfe House,
Delhi-110054
Tele: 011-23902481/87

nishant sir can we know how many bugs do you inserted in falcon