After crashes, Army set to junk Nishant UAVs
November 20, 2015  10:14
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The army is set to cancel any further induction of the Nishant surveillance UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) developed by the DRDO after yet another of the drones crashed in the deserts of Rajasthan on Thursday. 

With all four Nishant drones supplied to the Army in May 2013 for "user exploitation" having crashed, the last two within a fortnight, the army has put on hold the phase-II induction of eight more such drones. 

DRDO had launched the Rs 90 crore Nishant UAV project way back in 1995, on which there is now a big question mark, even though it has other drone projects like Rustom. "There are technical problems with the Nishant drones, especially in their take-off and parachute-recovery phases. Their technology is two decades old," said a source. 
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