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ABHYAS High Speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT)

January 13, 2021
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  • Successful flight test of ABHYAS – High-speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) was conducted by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

Background

  • ABHYAS-HEAT was developed by adopting DRDO’s Lakshya. Lakshya is a high-speed target drone system developed by DRDO. The first launch of ABHYAS was held in Chitradurga Aeronautical Testing Range in 2012.

ABHYAS – High-speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT)

    • The vehicle can be used as a target for evaluation of various missile systems.
  • Abhyas is designed & developed by Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), DRDO.
  • The air vehicle is launched using twin underslung boosters.
  • It is powered by a small gas turbine engine and has MEMS based Inertial Navigation System (INS) for navigation along with the Flight Control Computer (FCC) for guidance and control.
  • The vehicle is programmed for fully autonomous flight.
  • Abhyas is designed for autonomous flying with the help of an autopilot.
  • The check out of the air vehicle is done using a laptop based Ground Control Station (GCS).
  • Abhyas has RCS, Visual and IR augmentation systems required for weapon practice.
  • The fuselage consists of five sections, namely the nose cone, equipment bay, fuel tank bay, air intake bay and tail cone.

Achievements during the test

  • The user requirement of 5 km flying altitude
  • Vehicle speed of 0.5 mach
  • Endurance of 30 minutes and 2g turn capability
  • At the end of its launch phase the burnout booster rockets are ejected and the main gas-turbine engine powers the vehicle during cruise phase.

Lakshya Mean target in Sanskrit

  • Is an Indian remotely piloted high speed target drone system developed by the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) of DRDO. 
  • A variant Lakshya-1 is used to perform discreet aerial reconnaissance of battlefield and target acquisition.

Aeronautical Development Establishment 

  • Aeronautical Development Establishment is a laboratory of India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation. 
  • Located in Bangalore, its primary function is research and development in the field of military aviation.
  • Successful projects include 
    • Lakshya (an aerial target), 
    • Nishant (a reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle), 
    • Nirbhay(a subsonic cruise missile), 
    • Flight simulators for (LCA, Ajit, Kiran, Mig-21) and 
    • Avionics packages for Tejas-LCA (display and FCC). 

It earlier worked on Sparrow (mini-uav) and Ulka (aerial target).

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