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India successfully flight-tests pilotless Lakshya

India on Monday successfully flight-tested the indigenously developed micro-light Pilotless Target Aircraft Lakshya from the integrated test range (ITR) at Chandipur-on-sea in Orissa's Balasore district.

Lakshya, a sub-sonic and re-usable aerial target system remote controlled from the ground and designed to impart training to both air borne and destroying incoming enemy targets took off from ITR at 1.50 pm. DRDO sources called today's version as Digital Lakshya. The flight lasted for about 45 minutes, said director of ITR, SP Dash.

Lakshya has been developed by India's Aeronautic Development Establishment (ADE), Bangalore to perform discreet aerial reconnaissance of battlefield and target acquisition. It is launched by a solid propellant rocket motor, and sustained by a turbojet engine in flight. It has radar, IR and visual signature augmentation. Lakshya can be launched from land or ship and be recovered by a parachute system safely on land or sea. Lakshya's Ground control station and telemetry station allows pilotless control of aircraft and real time data acquisition. Till now, more than 200 Lakshya launches have been carried out
Meanwhile, DRDO is planning to test the nuclear-capable Prithvi-II ballistic missile on December 22 and 24 instead of the Advanced Air Defence Interceptor as planned earlier. The last tesfiring of Prithvi-II missile with a maximum range of 350 km on September 24 ended in an embarassing failure as the missile dropped off a few seconds after its launch from Integrated Test Range in Chandipur-on-sea of Orissa. DRDO had blamed the failure of the rocket engine on the failure.
DRDO sources said the faults in Prithvi-II has been rectified and the improved version would now be test-fired on December 22 and 24
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Bhubaneswar.

On December 11, the maiden testfiring of Agni-II Prime, a two-stage, surface-to-surface missile with a range of about 2,500 km failed as it veered off its trajectory and fell into the sea. Agni-II Prime was meant to fill the gap in the range between Agni-II and Agni-III.
 
India successfully flight-tests pilotless Lakshya

India on Monday successfully flight-tested the indigenously developed micro-light Pilotless Target Aircraft Lakshya from the integrated test range (ITR) at Chandipur-on-sea in Orissa's Balasore district.

Lakshya, a sub-sonic and re-usable aerial target system remote controlled from the ground and designed to impart training to both air borne and destroying incoming enemy targets took off from ITR at 1.50 pm. DRDO sources called today's version as Digital Lakshya. The flight lasted for about 45 minutes, said director of ITR, SP Dash.

Lakshya has been developed by India's Aeronautic Development Establishment (ADE), Bangalore to perform discreet aerial reconnaissance of battlefield and target acquisition. It is launched by a solid propellant rocket motor, and sustained by a turbojet engine in flight. It has radar, IR and visual signature augmentation. Lakshya can be launched from land or ship and be recovered by a parachute system safely on land or sea. Lakshya's Ground control station and telemetry station allows pilotless control of aircraft and real time data acquisition. Till now, more than 200 Lakshya launches have been carried out
Meanwhile, DRDO is planning to test the nuclear-capable Prithvi-II ballistic missile on December 22 and 24 instead of the Advanced Air Defence Interceptor as planned earlier. The last tesfiring of Prithvi-II missile with a maximum range of 350 km on September 24 ended in an embarassing failure as the missile dropped off a few seconds after its launch from Integrated Test Range in Chandipur-on-sea of Orissa. DRDO had blamed the failure of the rocket engine on the failure.
DRDO sources said the faults in Prithvi-II has been rectified and the improved version would now be test-fired on December 22 and 24.

Bhubaneswar.

On December 11, the maiden testfiring of Agni-II Prime, a two-stage, surface-to-surface missile with a range of about 2,500 km failed as it veered off its trajectory and fell into the sea. Agni-II Prime was meant to fill the gap in the range between Agni-II and Agni-III.
awesome news! this will be vital for us.
 
Livefist - Indian Defence & Aerospace: India's Lakshya-2 Drone Flies

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India's Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) has just announced the successful flight test of a Lakshya-2 pilotless targeting drone. According to a DRDO statement today, "Users have indicated their requirement of flying pilotless target aircraft at very low altitudes (15 to 25 metres above sea level) to simulate the trajectory of low-level cruise missiles. Accordingly ADE has prepared Lakshya-2 with necessary hardware and software to meet those requirements."

The Dec 20 flight test lasted 32 minutes at a range of 10-km. The DRDO statement said, "The flight was stable and well-controlled. A mobile launcher to launch the PTA from anywhere, and GPS to locate for recovery were used successfully." The Lakshya-2 also demonstrated several manoeuvers. The system has been designed so that two Lakshya targets can be flown and controlled by the common ground control station.
 
U guys were sayin thts it was in service while its still under testing!!!

Sir ji it is new variant Lakshya-2
DRDO sources called today's version as Digital Lakshya.
Till now, more than 200 Lakshya launches have been carried out.
"Users have indicated their requirement of flying pilotless target aircraft at very low altitudes (15 to 25 metres above sea level) to simulate the trajectory of low-level cruise missiles. Accordingly ADE has prepared Lakshya-2 with necessary hardware and software to meet those requirements."
 
Low altitude digital Lakshya-2 successfully flight tested

City-based Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), a unit of Defence Research and Development Organisation, has successfully conducted the flight test of Lakshya-2, built to meet anticipated user requirements for such a vehicle for testing out their guns and missiles.

The users have indicated their requirement of flying the pilot-less target aircraft at very low altitudes (15 to 25 metres above sea level) to simulating trajectory of low-level cruise missiles, :cheers::cheers::taz: DRDO said in a statement.

"ADE prepared Lakshya-2 with necessary hardware and software for meeting the user requirements. The flight test (yesterday) was of 32 minutes duration controlled by Ground Control Station and the low altitude flight was proved over 10 km range. The flight was stable and well controlled. Mobile launcher to launch the PTA from anywhere and GPS to locate for recovery was used successfully," it said.

The system has been designed so that two Lakshya targets :yahoo::devil:can be flown and controlled by the Common Ground Control Station, it was stated.

Low altitude digital Lakshya-2 successfully flight tested - Hindustan Times
 
^^^^ I think they are demonstrating capability for an anti-cruise missile system through Lakshya-2. Its important to have such a drone which can simulate like low flying cruise missiles for anti-missile to intercept it. Akash has capability to intercept cruise missiles and SPYDER will add more capability to it.
 

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