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Title: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: anwar on October 15, 2009, 10:57:58 AM http://www.esquire.com/features/unmanned-aircraft-1109 Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: rcforall on October 15, 2009, 03:17:00 PM Fantastic Anwar {:)} the future looks interesting :o
Wonder where we are in these temrs Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: sahilkit on October 15, 2009, 03:21:31 PM even our cadets are made to learn on rc plane part of there course (my friend is an instructor in one of these places)
Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: sahilkit on October 15, 2009, 03:27:49 PM for me the future looks grime with all the automation going on any guy with a connection n a computer can start a war or that is what i see in most of these movies :D
Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: anwar on October 15, 2009, 06:49:47 PM DRDO must be hard at work on similar projects. Not sure how many private enterprises (HAL etc?) are also building prototypes.
It is strange that one day, air combat would be between these unmanned drones :o Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: allthatido on October 15, 2009, 07:20:17 PM Anwar
I dont think HAL is a private enterprise..its a navratna organisation..meaning a govt org with more autonomy to handle its affairs. And DRDO does have a UAV called Nishant (but i dont think its a fighting machine...more of espionage i suppose) Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: anwar on October 15, 2009, 07:26:10 PM Yes, HAL is related to the government (not sure it if is semi-government, autonomous etc etc). Frankly, I did not know any other private enterprise examples, hence the reference to HAL !
Wonder if Nishant has been formulated into a full combat squadron ? Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: rcforall on October 16, 2009, 06:47:02 AM There are 2 categories of UAV's as per the latest thinking :
UAV : Surveillance , Search and rescue routine UCAV : Un manned Combat A.V. : they are being designed to perform maneuvers which can even endure around 25 G forces as the previous limitation was largely what the pilot could endure so now with this limitation out of the way designers are now pushing at machine endurance . Looks like apart from flying there is good potential for those who can design and make their auto pilots ??? Sai Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: anwar on July 07, 2010, 08:51:13 AM Here are some REALLY interesting issues that the military drone folks are facing, partly due to design issues with the current generation of drones.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-drone-crashes-20100706,0,1508593.story Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: iamahuman on July 07, 2010, 02:07:33 PM There was one example of this daring (pretty much)suicidal mission in WW2.The Americans filled a plane with explosives flew it up to its destination and parachuted out at the last moment.DRDO can try this.One drone capable of battle is the predator B the Americans have.
Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: flyingboxcar on July 07, 2010, 04:18:46 PM HAL is a PSU entirely owned by MoD GoI (that is Ministry of Defence, Government of India). They are less into R&D and more into manufacturing. R&D part is left with DRDO, NAL, ADA etc.
India has Nishant, Lakshya in production, while first is basically a eye in the sky the second is a target UAV. UAV's and UCAV's like Rustom, Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), and Project Aura are in the development stage per news availble in public domain. Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: amulu10 on July 09, 2010, 07:38:48 PM DRDO must be hard at work on similar projects. Not sure how many private enterprises (HAL etc?) are also building prototypes. http://www.tataadvancedsystems.com/section.aspx?mId=3&cId=28It is strange that one day, air combat would be between these unmanned drones :o Tata advance system are one private company which are into development of UAVs for sometime now. Not sure if they have a flight ready prototype though Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: flyingboxcar on July 09, 2010, 09:24:55 PM This is one cvompany which already has comercialised the application developed/sourced by them. http://www.specksystems.com/
One of the members on both the forums earlier worked for them. Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: UAVpilot on August 07, 2010, 12:20:28 AM Some really good links and resources I'm going to utilize at our UAVpilot.org site.
Thanks, guys. India is working up to being a big player in the global UAV scene. Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: anwar on January 10, 2012, 08:13:22 PM I can only imagine future wars !
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/01/09/drones_make_up_one_third_of_u_s_military_aircraft_.html Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: rcpilotacro on January 10, 2012, 08:25:11 PM This UAV is interesting , must be extremely nose heavy, (Tail down stab for launch) very docile to fly and lot of trim drag at low speed , speed range due low T/C and reflex camber at the trailing edge must b making it again good aerofoil to handle, this should be tried out by some of our scratch builders (Like sandy ..)
Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: anwar on January 10, 2012, 09:43:18 PM And this : http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/12/ufo-drone-x47b/
A carrier based one ! Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: anwar on January 25, 2012, 04:04:54 PM Many many amazing gadgets and tools in this video !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyJoJUs14bc Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: praveen on January 25, 2012, 05:09:20 PM Gusty sir that type of aircraft is also manufactured in India by MKU! one of my friend is working on that UAV as Field Pilot like me ;D
http://www.mku.com/terp_s.asp Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: ujjwaana on January 25, 2012, 05:59:24 PM Why our Indian Military/Engineers dot'n feature on such sites banners/media!!Byt the pics, I thought it is yet another Israeli / American firm. But surprised to see a neighboring Kanpur address!
Nice job... Do they sell the air frame cheap ? Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: dst161 on January 25, 2012, 07:51:01 PM WOW! This is just amazing to know....
Wonder how hard is for them to import equipment and what all trouble they go through .... compared the trouble we have importing stuff for the hobby.... LOL! :headscratch: Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: praveen on January 25, 2012, 08:48:28 PM why ujjwal bhai want one? i can ask my friend for one for you ;D
these are built upto military standards like -20 c to 55 c temp handling! assembled in less than 5 minutes without using any tool ! and from bag to mission launch less than 7 minutes! believe me these are rugged models can take good beatings ! especially this bird has 2 hr endurance. Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: rcpilotacro on January 25, 2012, 08:52:18 PM Gusty sir that type of aircraft is also manufactured in India by MKU! one of my friend is working on that UAV as Field Pilot like me ;D http://www.mku.com/terp_s.asp good to see that, that was news to me, but we have DRDO :rofl: Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: HamAero on January 25, 2012, 10:33:06 PM good to see that, that was news to me, but we have DRDO :rofl: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/india-conducts-flight-trials-of-micro-mini-air-vehicles/articleshow/11631655.cms Must have imported from HK :rofl: Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: anwar on February 03, 2012, 08:34:19 PM http://www.suasnews.com/2012/01/11513/india-conducts-flight-trials-of-three-mavs/
Title: Re: More UAV pilots trained than regular pilots Post by: allthatido on February 03, 2012, 10:05:23 PM I personally saw the small yellow uav with inverse Zimmerman profile. It had Axi 2213, turnigy 1000 mah lipo, futaba S3114M servos, xbee module to send data back. It used a proprietary auto pilot code.
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