a Twitter thread from @Mave\_Intel

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Various UAVs operated by Indian Forces

1.Heron TP

Its a Medium Altitude long Endurance (Male) developed for all weather strategic missions.Its MTOW is 5670 kg and Max Payload is 2700 kg

It can be armed if need arises,Endurance of 30+ hours and Range 1000+km

operator-IA(4)

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2.MQ-9 Guardian from General Atomics

Range-1850+ ,used by Indian Navy extensively in Indian Ocean Region for Survillence

Based at INS Rajali

Operator-IN(2)

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3.Heron developed by IAI ,has maximum endurance of 45+ hours .

Indian Army has 15, IAF has 68 and Indian Navy has 5+ Heron UAVs.

One of Heron Uav Operated by NTRO is also used in Anti Naxal Ops.

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4.Searcher mk-2

Developed by IAI ,it has endurance of 18+ hrs.

Shorter range and Endurance compared to Heron.

Indian Airforce and Indian Navy operates 120+ of these RPAs.

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5.IAI Harop is a loitering munition. Its an anti-Radiation drone that can autonomously home in on radion emissions and destroy High Value targets by self destructing into them.

Range of 1000+km ,IAF operates 160+ of them

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6.Drdo Lakshya is remotely piloted high speed Target Drone system developed by the ADE, top speed of Mach 0.7 ,Range-150km+ and Its launched with Rocket assisted Take off.

Tri services has 30+ of these ,

also used for aerial reconnaissance of battlefield and target acquisition

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7.Meggitt BTT-3 Banshee Is a target drone developed for air defence training by british for air defence system training with Endurance of 1+Hrs,

Range-100km+

India operates 200+ of these

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8.Kadet system Tgt Drone Indigenously developed ,

India have 150+ of these

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09.Ideaforge Switch UAV ,again an indigenous uav with 2 Hours of endurance and max altitude of 4,500 meters.

140 cr deal ,Expected Quantity 50+

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10.Ideaforge Netra with 5km+ Range and endurance of 60min+.

spotted by Indian army ,CISF ,CRPF and Army till now.

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11.DJI Mavic series

Used for Recce by JKP and IA on local level ...

Max Flight Time-30min

(45 with mods)

Range-10+(with mods)

most used non military grade uav in forces

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12.DJI phantom

Again used by Army ,JKP and BSF for recce ,sometimes spotted with Flashlight attached for Encounters in Night

Range-5km+

Endurance-40min

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13.Spylite is Used by Indian Army for High Altitude Survillence

Endurance-4+ hours

Flight Ceiling -30,000 feet+

Ideal for siachen glacier and border with China

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