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DRDO successfully carries out maiden flight of UAV The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is called the ‘Autonomous Flying Wing Technology Demonstrator

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It took a year from its taxi trails to first flight, and that too for a scaled down model? Should have atleast been half the time taken.
 
Looks like one of the Iranian mini variants of RQ-170

Camera on top is oddly placed but I assume there will be larger version in the future
 
Thats appears to be a small crude RQ170 wannabe.
It's actually a scaled down model of concept study. So it will not serve in its current form. The Flight control systems developed on this thing will go on a wing concept UCAV. That will have an engine with a dry thrust of 40-50kN. So kind of atleast twice as big as RQ170.

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it looks like an RC flying wing to me.
Only thing is that this scaled down model weighs actually 1000+ kg, has 200km+ LOS communication and a flight Altitude of 20000 feet.

So if it's an RC, it's really advanced one.
 
The most glaringly obvious thing here,which rather strangely no one seems to want to mention,is the addition of a vertical stabilizer for the actual flight test.This would seem to indicate that the indians are having the same problems that have often plagued the flying wing design,ie stability,or the lack thereof.
Hopefully they can find a permanent solution to this,because otherwise having to fit a permanent vertical tail is going to seriously compromise the aircrafts lo characteristics.
 

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