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India on Wednesday (24th Dec14) carried out maiden flight testing of Panchi, the wheeled version of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Nishant, capable of taking-off and landing by using small airstrips.

The maiden flight of the unmanned aircraft lasted about 20 minutes and was successful.The aircraft has a jam resistant command link and digital down link for transmission of imagery. While its length is about 4.63 meter and wingspan 6.57 meter, it weighs around 380 kg. Travelling at a maximum speed of 185 km/hour, it can cruise at a speed of 125 km/hour to 150 km/hour with a service ceiling of 3,600 meter.

It will have longer endurance as it does not have to carry the air bags and parachute system as in the case of UAV Nishant.It is designed for battlefield surveillance and reconnaissance, target tracking and localization and artillery fire correction. The electro-optic payloads are mounted on a stabilized steerable platform. A sophisticated image processing system is used for analysing the images transmitted from the UAV, the release stated.

Sourcehttp://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/DRDO-Conducts-Maiden-Test-Flight-of-Panchi-UAV/2014/12/25/article2587210.ece

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