Indigenous design & development of Hawker hunter is undertaken for live weapon firing of GBAD SAMs. Target drone will enable training of SAM operators and enhance their skills to engage targets during actual scenarios. System specification along with CAD model is given below:

Technical Specifications:

• Max speed : 70 m/s
• Cruise speed : 44 m/s
• Stall speed : 26 m/s
• Take-off speed : 30 m/s
• Cross wind : 10 m/s
• Endurance : 60 min
• Engine : 17.5 HP Gasoline IC engine
• No. of hard points : 06
• Payload weight : 4 kg
• MTOW : ~44 kg
• Wingspan : ~2.8 m
• Overall Length : ~2.5 m
• Data link Range : 30 km
• Altitude : 2000 m
• Take-off & landing : Wheel based
• Take-off distance : 100 m
• Auto-pilot features : Fully autonomous navigation in flight waypoint & manual navigation Mission abort & self-destruct or recover