Every One of India’s Nishant Drones Has Crashed

[Windjammer]

New Delhi kills program after losing all of them


The Nishant was supposed to be the Indian Army’s premier, domestically-produced surveillance drone. But now it can’t be because all of them, every single one, crashed.

To be fair, there were only four Nishants. The product of a development program dating to 1995 from India’s state-owned Defense Research and Development Organization, the Nishant was meant to be a medium-altitude drone in a similar class to the Israeli Heron, which India also operates.

The difference being that India would produce the Nishant itself, freeing the country from its dependence on foreign unmanned vehicles, just as China and Pakistan race ahead producing drones of their own.

During its brief lifespan, the catapult-launched Nishant could stay in the air for four-and-a-half hours. The drone carried no weapons. Returning to base, the Nishant would not land like an airplane, but deploy a parachute and float to earth.

It could not carry weapons, as it functioned strictly in a reconnaissance role — spotting for artillery, snooping on enemy troops and hoovering up electronic and signal information from the battlefield. Or at least, that was the plan.

Had Nishant worked out, the Indian Army would have bought a total of twelve and sent them to disputed Kashmir region and to track Maoist rebels in India’s interior.



But it was not to be. The four prototype Nishants entered service in 2011, and then started falling — not floating — out of the sky. The first two went down near the Pakistani border in April 2015. The third Nishant crashed in Rajasthan in early November.

There was only one left … and that crashed on Nov. 19.


Above and at top — Nishant drones, one of them crashed with what appears to be an undeployed parachute. Photos via Indian defense forums
The cause of the last crash appeared to be a parachute which failed to properly deploy.

“In the past DRDO has blamed poor handling by the Army for the loss of at least two systems,” the Economic Times reported. “However, the Army has contended that the system has failed to perform and has technical problems during the recovery phase that have not been sorted out.”

To the Army’s credit, it already operates dozens of Israeli drones with no apparent troubles. Retired Lt. Gen. P.C. Katoch, who led the Indian Army’s information systems directorate, blasted the DRDO for a “gross lack of accountability,” producing “schoolboy level” inventions and then bragging about its accomplishments with “false propaganda.”

“For their part, the DRDO in its usual manner has blamed the user for poor handling of the system, a point categorically denied by the Army,” Katoch wrote at SP’s Aviation magazine. “The irony is that this game has been [going] on for decades with no one held accountable in the DRDO.”

“The irony here is that while this monolith of DRDO cannot produce a worthwhile drone in 20 years, Pakistan has already developed and deployed its own armed drone.” Kaotch was referring to the Burraq drone, which Islamabad developed from the Chinese CH-3.

Nishant, however, is dead. With no more left and an obvious lack of faith in the drone, the Indian Army cancelled the project for good.

Every One of India’s Nishant Drones Has Crashed | War Is Boring

 

[Maarkhoor]

And they blame Indian army for poor training but last carsh they call official and test it and infront of the official they successfully demonstarte how it crashes.

 

[knight11]

Thread already running at Every One of India’s Nishant Drones Has Crashed

@waz @django pls merge them.

 

[Maarkhoor]

Homegrown Nishant Drone's Perfect Crash Record

Army sources said the UAV, the last of the four inducted in 2011, crashed near Pokhran in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan.

NEW DELHI: There were meant to be the eyes and ears of the Indian Army - a state of the art unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) meant to give Army commanders high definition images of a battlefield, help designate targets, and provide Electronic and Signal Intelligence information.

Instead, the home-grown Nishant UAV, developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is a flop with all four aircraft in service with the Indian Army having crashed. And now, the Army has had enough. They want no more Nishant drones from the DRDO. Each drone had cost the Army Rs. 22 crore.

The last of the four Nishants in service with the Army went down near the Pokhran range in Rajasthan today. According to Army sources, "Today's crash is due to a technical glitch." Just 15 days back, another Nishant had gone down, also for a technical reason. Earlier in April, two other Nishant drones had crash landed near the India-Pakistan border near Jaisalmer.

Under development for two decades, the Nishant, designed to fly for four and a half hours, was first inducted into the Indian Army in 2011 after successfully completing confirmatory trials. Launched by a catapult system, the Nishant is recovered after it deploys a parachute at the end of the each mission.

For their part, the DRDO has blamed the user for poor handling of the system, a point categorically denied by the Army.

The DRDO was banking on the success of the Nishant drone and was also developed a wheeled version of the system called the Panchi. The future of this programme now remains unclear.

India's armed forces uses a variety of UAVs including Israeli built Heron and Searcher aircraft which are larger and significantly more capable that the Nishant in its present state of development. A smaller drone, called the Nethra which was developed by graduates of the Indian Institute of Technology is also in use with the forces and is widely used by police and paramiltiary forces and the National Disaster Relief Force.

Homegrown Nishant Drone's Perfect Crash Record

After crashes, Army set to junk Nishant UAVs

New DELHI: 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.


After crashes, Army set to junk Nishant UAVs - Times of India


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.



As reported by TOI earlier, the armed forces have well over 200 drones, with the bulk of them being inducted from Israel since the 1999 Kargil conflict. Apart from the Israeli Searcher-II and Heron drones for long-range surveillance and precision-targeting, the IAF also has the Israeli Harop "killer drones" that detect and then hit specific targets and radars in Kamikaze mode. They also want to induct UCAVs (combat UAVs), which act as fighter jets by firing missiles and then returning to their home bases, in the years ahead.

 

[Tipu7]

Mean while in Pakistan......

 

[Mrc]

Next: tejas than arjun than ....... list is long

 

[pkd]

If Indian army is not willing to induct, it can be sold to other countries like Equador.

 

[knight11]

Mean while in Pakistan......


View attachment 278644

Dear tipu, like planes Drones or UAV are different in role and sizes and technologies. The Nishant drones do not fit the Indian Army doctrine that's why only order for nishant was 12, so doping or dumping the nishant order is not related to the accident as per the report above. India army have access to Israeli modern UAV that fit the requirement more efficiently.

However technologies do evolves, and nishant fives India the valuable knowledge in the field of UAV like Data link onboard, ground system, accutator, autopilot, 120hp engine etc
Check this link

India revealing secrets of its predator-like Rustom drone to boost military - Livemint

 

[Donatello]

What an achievement. Indians must be really proud. Give them an asteroid, and they will manage to crash that as well.

 

[pkd]

What an achievement. Indians must be really proud. Give them an asteroid, and they will manage to crash that as well.

Sir your sense of humor is legendary

 

[A2Z]

There is no point in blaming the IA, even a person like me who has a limited knowledge can understand that fault lies in DRDO not in IA handling. Moreover due to the access IA enjoys to Israeli UAVs have made them think that the DRDO's UAV are useless and you cannot blame them.

DRDO has started more projects then it can handle and that is one of the reasons that we hear about their failure every now and then may be they should sort out the matters and handle fewer projects in a time.

 

[knight11]

There is no point in blaming the IA, even a person like me who has a limited knowledge can understand that fault lies in DRDO not in IA handling. Moreover due to the access IA enjoys to Israeli UAVs have made them think that the DRDO's UAV are useless and you cannot blame them.

DRDO has started more projects then it can handle and that is one of the reasons that we hear about their failure every now and then may be they should sort out the matters and handle fewer projects in a time.

Its not the DRDO handling more projects. If going into deep Drones suffer from the usual aircraft mechanical and pilot failures, but they also grapple with uniquely drone-ish issues: They're harder to launch and land, and lost communication links pose a problem. But as drones spend more time aloft, operators and craft manufacturers have had a chance to find and iron out kinks in the machinery. Most drones today are of the larger military variety, but that'll change.

Big drones actually crash a lot. Official statistics on large unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) accident rates vary, but drones are 30 to 300 times more likely to crash than small civil aircrafts, according to one estimate. According to a 2005 Department of Defense report, every 100,000 flight hours saw 191 AAI Shadow UAVs destroyed or in need of drastic repairs, compared to just four manned F-16s.

Why do they fail?
Because they don't carry a human life, drones are sometimes pushed harder than piloted planes. In one instance, a Reaper drone was running perilously low on fuel as it neared its destination, but controllers felt that the target was important enough to sacrifice a drone. So they kept going, Peter Singer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution told NBC News, citing a private Air Force briefing.

In another instance, a drone ran out of missiles. "But they really wanted the target, so they turned that system into a kamikaze," Singer said.

Like manned aircrafts, UAVs can run out of fuel or encounter mechanical failures, John Hansman, an aviation researcher at MIT, told NBC News. Though such problems aren't drone specific, they are significant — a DoD survey showed that 57 percent of accidents until 2005 were caused by flight control issues or engine or transmission problems.

According to this report https://www.rt.com/usa/167396-pentagon-crash-400-military-drones/

Following an investigation into more than 50,000 pages of federal and military records, the Washington Post found that more than 400 large American drones have crashed since 2001, with almost half of the accidents each causing millions of dollars in damages.





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[DavidSling]

Producting quality UAV"s ain't this simple and one can only suggest how much Israeli drone sells helped Russia and China developing theirs.
Report: Moscow purchased 10 Israeli drones - Israel News - Jerusalem Post
The Five Most Deadly Drone Powers in the World | The National Interest
"The extent to which Israeli technology has directly influenced drone programs in Russia and China remains an open question. However, there is no question that Israeli technology and production is pushing the global drone “race” forward."

 

[knight11]

And they blame Indian army for poor training but last carsh they call official and test it and infront of the official they successfully demonstarte how it crashes.

The reason could be any. UAV are very prone to accidents almost 300X, and accident count happens not only due to mechanical, electrical, electronics, fuel, loss of data link, winds, and UAV don't involve risk of pilot life, so could be crash landed deliberately to avoid accidents.

India is going for bigger HALE UAV Rustam -2, and UAV like Nishant does not fit the bill of Indian Army doctrine. But due to its easy of takeoff without runway, and wheeled version Panchi, it might got order from paramilitary forces like BSF, CRPF, ITBP and state Police.

 

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