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The country’s aboriginal Lakshya-II pilotless target aircraft has been tested successfully off a test range in Balasore near Bhubaneswar in Orissa on Friday, demonstrating its ‘ultimate’ capability.
Lakshya II flew at sea soaring height of about 15 meters. In a flight lasting more than 30 minutes, it was made to dive down from an elevation of around 800 meters to just 12 meter and maintained required altitude for the specified time before demonstrating auto climb-out.
It demonstrated various technologies and sub-systems including software rectification to auto-control scheme done to prevent loss of mission, appealing and flying in way point navigation mode while carrying tow targets.
The complete flight was pre-programmed and was totally successful. It has established various technologies and sub-systems including software correction to auto tiller scheme done to prevent loss of mission, engaging and flying in way point direction-finding mode while carrying two tow targets, a defense ministry release has told.
During the flight, one of the two targets was released and the other was deployed while way-point navigation was on. This was the 10th flight of Lakshya-II and the first time that demonstrated the full capability, achieving all the user’s objectives.
Lakshya-II has been designed and developed by the Bangalore-based Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), a premier DRDO lab concentrating in UAVs and flight control systems.
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