Bangalore: Three days after on board
malfunction lead to gentle landing of unmanned aerial vehicle
Nishant, the Aeronautical Development Establishment has
successfully flown the UAV, the DRDO has said.
"All systems worked normally in its 30th flight and the
mission was totally successful," the Defence Research and
Development Organisation said in a statement here.
The 30th flight was conducted at ADE, a DRDO lab
headquartered here, on February one between 11.25 am and 3 pm.
The aircraft took off from the launcher located at Kolar
airfield and it was recovered after three hours, 35 minutes at
the designated point, the DRDO said.
Nishant-15 was the same aircraft flown on January 29 from
the same location. It flew through the designated way point
till 3 pm as per plan and was returning towards recovery area
near launcher when an on board malfunction occurred while
overflying a path five km from Bangarpet. It had led to the
recovery parachute coming out and the vehicle landed gently on
the ground as per design.
Further, to absorb the shock of recovery, the landing bag
in the vehicle got deployed and the vehicle was recovered
fully intact except for a very minor damage, the DRDO said,
denying that the Nishant had crash-landed on January 29.
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, February 03, 2010, 18:13