印度国防研究组织的武装无人机Rustom-2首飞
BENGALURU: After a considerable delay, Rustom-2, India's long endurance Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) finally completed its first flight early on Tuesday in Challakere, about 200km from Bengaluru.
The UCAV, which is in the medium-altitude, long endurance (MALE) category of vehicles, sources in the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) which developed the vehicle, said "met all the expectations" during the first flight.
延期很久后，印度续航时间长的武装无人机最终于11月15日早上在距离班加罗尔200公里远的Challakere完成首飞。
负责研发这款无人机的印度航空发展机构的消息人士透露，中高空、长航时的无人武装机首飞完全符合预期。
First scheduled in late 2013, the three-year delay of the first flight had only added to the timeline, which is punctuated by other delays during development- even as the Indian armed forces are increasingly looking outside the country for combat drones with deals already struck with Israeli firms.
Rustom-2, the developers, however, claim will be an aircraft unlike any other UAV in the ranks of our forces. It has a wingspan of more than 20m and an endurance of 24-30 hours.
原计划的首飞是2013年底，耽搁了3年，期间不时被其他因素中断。对此，印度陆军越来越把目光投向海外寻找武装无人机，目前已经和以色列公司敲定了协议。
然而，研制商表示，Rustom-2与印度军队里任何一款无人机不一样，Rustom-2翼展超过20米，续航时间24-30小时。
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外文地址：http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/DRDOs-combat-drone-Rustom-2-flies-for-the-first-time/articleshow/55450539.cms
High on dope
We, the category of true citizens of India, are more eager to hear the first news of Indian UAVs destroyong Porki terror camps, very soon. All other related development news are ok but certainly not enough...
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作为印度公民，我们更迫切希望听到的是印度无人机摧毁巴基斯坦恐怖营地的消息
其他相关新闻也可以，不过没那么劲爆
Hrishi Desai
Congrats to DRDO and all the very best for future advanced versions...
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祝贺印度国防研究组织，希望以后顺利研发出先进的无人机
Sushil Kumar
Congrats to all those who made this possible.
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祝贺研发这款无人机的科研人员
Ashwin Sharma
Congratulations DRDO....Long way to go.....keep it up
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祝贺印度国防研究发展组织，还有很长一段路要走，继续保持
Sainath Kalpathy
Wonderful achievement ! Successive govt in India have contributed to this great act !
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举世瞩目的重大成就。
印度历届政府为无人机投入很大
Hrishi Desai
INDIA - 1 hour ago
Congrats to DRDO and all the very best for future advanced versions...
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祝贺印度国防研究发展组织
Stanley Raphael
1 hour ago
good jobs boys keep the country tech n t army strong to fight any war n battle driven era.
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很棒，伙计们，技术要先进，军队要强大，才能打赢任何一场战争
bhasi_krishnan
1 hour ago
It is high time we developed dragon flies, which can lift off or drop off air crafts. They should be made maxmum undetectable - neither audible nor visible, housing one person. These will be very effective in countering insurgency and targeting terrorists.
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无人机要能从飞机上释放，最大程度上隐形，不仅是听不见，而且看不见，上面坐一人
用来反恐很有用
Dr Neeraj Tripathi
1 hour ago
Again late!, but well done DRDO and Modiji.We must try to integrate laser guided missiles in it as soon as possible__
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又迟了！
印度国防研究发展组织干得漂亮，尽快在无人机上搭载激光制导导弹
Sourav Mukherjee
Kolkata - 5 mins ago
Great strides in the sky
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突飞猛进啊