Indigenously developed High-Speed Target Drone (HSTD) is aimed to serve as a high-speed target to train personnel for Live Weapon Firing (LWF) by ships Surface to Air Missiles, shore based SAMs and Anti-aircraft guns. It is deployed through pneumatic launcher and has parachute landing feature. System specifications are tabulated below:

Technical Specifications:

• Cruise speed : 100 m/s
• Max speed : 120 m/s
• Stall speed : 25 m/s
• Launch speed : 28 m/s
• Cross wind : 10 m/s
• Endurance : 20 min
• Payload Capacity : 1.2 kg
• MTOW : 20 kg
• Thrust : 220 N
• Engine type : Turbojet engine
• Fuel type : Jet-A 1
• Overall Length : 2 m
• Overall Width : 1.4 m
• Launch method : Pneumatic launcher
• Recovery : Parachute recovery
• Data link range : 30 km
• HSTD Model isillustrated below: