{"id":502486,"date":"2022-07-02T10:45:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T05:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=502486"},"modified":"2022-07-02T11:39:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T06:09:54","slug":"drdos-maiden-autonomous-aircraft-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/drdos-maiden-autonomous-aircraft-successful\/","title":{"rendered":"DRDO&#8217;s maiden autonomous aircraft successful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), on Friday, successfully carried out the maiden flight of the indigenously developed unmanned aircraft from Aeronautical Test Range in Challakere taluk of Chitradurga district. <\/p>\n<p>Operating in a fully autonomous mode, the aircraft exhibited a perfect flight and a smooth touchdown, sources in DRDO said.<\/p>\n<p>The flight marked a major milestone in proving critical technologies towards development of future unmanned aircraft and is a significant step towards self-reliance in such strategic defence technologies. <\/p>\n<p>Bengaluru-based Aeronautical Development Establishment of DRDO designed and developed it. It is powered by a small turbofan engine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), on Friday, successfully carried out the maiden flight of the indigenously developed unmanned aircraft from Aeronautical Test Range in Challakere taluk of Chitradurga district. Operating in a fully autonomous mode, the aircraft exhibited a perfect flight and a smooth touchdown, sources in DRDO said. The flight marked a major milestone in proving critical technologies towards development of future unmanned aircraft and is a significant step towards self-reliance in such strategic defence technologies. Bengaluru-based Aeronautical Development Establishment of DRDO designed and developed it. It is powered by a small turbofan engine.<\/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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502486","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=502486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}