{"id":502313,"date":"2022-07-02T09:14:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T03:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=502313"},"modified":"2022-07-02T09:42:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T04:12:18","slug":"indigenous-stealth-drone-makes-maiden-flight-from-test-range-in-karnataka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigenous-stealth-drone-makes-maiden-flight-from-test-range-in-karnataka\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous stealth drone makes maiden flight from test range in Karnataka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully conducted the maiden flight of its \u201cAutonomous Flying Wing Technology Demonstrator\u201d from the Aeronautical Test Range, Chitradurga, Karnataka on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOperating in a fully autonomous mode, the aircraft exhibited a perfect flight, including take-off, way point navigation and a smooth touchdown,\u201d the DRDO announced in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe aircraft is powered by a small turbofan engine. The airframe, undercarriage and entire flight control and avionics systems used for the aircraft were developed indigenously,\u201d stated the DRDO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully conducted the maiden flight of its \u201cAutonomous Flying Wing Technology Demonstrator\u201d from the Aeronautical Test Range, Chitradurga, Karnataka on Friday. \u201cOperating in a fully autonomous mode, the aircraft exhibited a perfect flight, including take-off, way point navigation and a smooth touchdown,\u201d the DRDO announced in a press release. \u201cThe aircraft is powered by a small turbofan engine. The airframe, undercarriage and entire flight control and avionics systems used for the aircraft were developed indigenously,\u201d stated the DRDO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}