{"id":142793,"date":"2021-10-23T19:14:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T13:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=142793"},"modified":"2021-10-23T19:14:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T13:44:29","slug":"high-speed-expendable-aerial-target-abhyas-successfully-flight-tested-by-drdo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/high-speed-expendable-aerial-target-abhyas-successfully-flight-tested-by-drdo\/","title":{"rendered":"High-Speed Expendable Aerial Target ABHYAS successfully flight-tested by DRDO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Defence Research and Development Organisation<\/strong>(DRDO) has successfully flight-tested <strong>Abhyas High-speed Expendable Aerial Target<\/strong> (HEAT) from the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur, Odisha.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Abhyas?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abhyas is an indigenously developed <strong>Unmanned Aerial Vehicle<\/strong>(UAV) that will be used as a target for the evaluation of various missile systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Developed by:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It has been designed and developed by DRDO\u2019s Aeronautical Development Establishment(ADE).<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more<\/strong>: <a style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: var(--global--color-background);\" title=\"Threats Posed by UAVs \u2013 Explained, Pointwise\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/threats-posed-by-uavs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Threats Posed by UAVs \u2013 Explained, Pointwise<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><b>What are the key Features of Abhyas?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abhyas is powered by a small gas turbine engine to sustain a long endurance flight at subsonic speed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also equipped with a MEMS-based <strong>Inertial Navigation System<\/strong>(INS) for navigation, along with the <strong>Flight Control Computer<\/strong>(FCC) for guidance and control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, the Abhyas vehicle is programmed for fully autonomous flight. The check-out of air vehicle is done using a laptop-based <strong>Ground Control Station<\/strong> (GCS)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>High-Speed Expendable Aerial Target ABHYAS successfully flight-tested by DRDO<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in <\/span><b>PIB <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on <\/span><b>22nd October 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Defence Research and Development Organisation(DRDO) has successfully flight-tested Abhyas High-speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) from the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur, Odisha. What is Abhyas? Abhyas is an indigenously developed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) that will be used as a target for the evaluation of various missile systems. Developed by: It has&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/high-speed-expendable-aerial-target-abhyas-successfully-flight-tested-by-drdo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">High-Speed Expendable Aerial Target ABHYAS successfully flight-tested by DRDO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702837522},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}