India has already issued Letter of Request (LoR) to the US for the purchase of 24 MH-60 R Seahawk multirole helicopters for the Navy.
Tag: Drones
Bloodstream Project: Drones for blood supply to women during child-birth in remote areas
Drones are proving to be the most cutting-edge innovations for emergency situations, health hazards being one of them. To the saviour, comes a start-up aiming to revolutionise the way blood reaches the remote areas across the country. Anshul Sharma (23), Arnab Bhattacharya (24), and Rishabh Gupta (25), aerospace graduates from MIT,[Read More…]
Karnataka: How MESCOM uses drones in times of flood crises
Mangalore Electricity Supply Company (MESCOM) Limited has shown the way to use drones in times of crisis. Making the best use of drone for disaster management, MESCOM laid three power supply wires across a river in Kodagu, Dakshina Kannada. Due to heavy rains, electricity lines were snapped as a tree, getting[Read More…]
E-commerce will be able to do deliveries using drones
E-commerce players like Amazon and Flipkart will be able to make airborne delivery of products to customers in India using drones enabled by technology being developed by the country’s aviation sector, a minister announced on Thursday. “E-commerce deliveries using drones are certainly going to be possible in India. Companies like[Read More…]
Naxalism cannot be fought if the Centre keeps reducing funds: Nitish Kumar
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar slammed Centre for stopping funds for schemes to combat Naxals and ‘declining’ the state’s request for a helicopter for quick deployment of forces in anti-Maoist operations, during a review meeting on Naxalism, organized by the Home Ministry. Kumar lashed out at Centre saying that, “the[Read More…]
Singapore to use drones to inspect railway tunnels
China to set up largest production base for industrial drones soon
China Eagle, a Beijing-based unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) developer, will build the country’s largest production base for industrial drones. China’s largest production base for industrial drones is under construction in Jiangsu Province and is expected to produce its first UAV in May. In today’s world, the use of drones for[Read More…]
Gujarat teen signs Rs 5-crore MoU for drones
IIT-Kharagpur students developing fully indegenous drones
Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur officials on Monday claimed that a group of students were developing drones using indigenous hardware and software. The drones, being developed under the institute’s Aerial Robotics Kharagpur (ARK) initiative, are being given shape at the Centre for Excellence in Robotics and funded by the Sponsored Research[Read More…]