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'India, Israel developing unmanned helicopter'
The unmanned helicopter meant primarily for use by the navy will carry payloads such as day-and-night-imaging systems and various radar systems.
'India, Israel developing unmanned helicopter'
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) will convert the HAL-built Chetak Helicopter into an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV),
domain-b.com : AeroIndia 2009: HAL, IAI to convert Chetak chopper into UAV
as the Chetak was already flying, he did not foresee any difficulties in converting it into a rotary-wing UAV, as all it required was integration of the command and control systems. HAL's Chetak is a version of the French Alouette helicopter.
http://www.satnews.com/cgi-bin/story.cgi?number=1312146799
This might explain the lack of interest in purchasing...
Agreed! That is why PN should look at developing similar UAV's from old Alouettes that they have been using for ship-borne flying many years in the Arabian Sea environment. The platform is tested and matured in the ambient environment and with a little help from the local technology base, they should be able to develop a reliable VTOL UAV out of the same platform!