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India's navy has operational requirements for additional unmanned air vehicles made by Israel Aerospace Industries, sources say, with these to potentially include improved Heron or Heron-TP systems carrying maritime sensor payloads. Evaluations using some systems have already been carried out, they add.
The Indian navy in January stood up its second UAV squadron, with its current IAI-produced Heron and Searcher II systems facing increased operational demand. This has led to indications within recent weeks that additional contracts could be placed with IAI, the sources say.
In addition to having already provided UAVs to the Indian navy, IAI is also equipping the service with additional equipment, such as the Barak-8 air defence missile.

Indian navy eyes more Israeli UAVs
 
Why cant our DRDO UAVs? it is very good and will serve the purpose of surveillance..
Its not developed yet....i think IN needs MALE and HALE and 40-50 odd VTOL UAVs like Fire Scout. I think every IN ship with a deck should have a fire scout. I think DRDO Rustom-1 and Rustom-H is critical but it is not ready yet. I think if DRDO develops it quickly it will be able to get some orders otherwise by the time it will get ready, IN would have inducted all the UAVs.
 
Why cant our DRDO UAVs? it is very good and will serve the purpose of surveillance..

They still lack clearly behind in this field and several crashes confirms that they will need further experience till they are ready and proven. More cooperation with the Israelis would be a good idea, especially for weaponized versions of UAVs, that our forces badly needs!
 

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