{"id":12242,"date":"2024-06-27T06:34:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T01:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12242"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:34:50","slug":"tapas-unmanned-aerial-vehicle-uav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tapas-unmanned-aerial-vehicle-uav\/","title":{"rendered":"What is TAPAS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About TAPAS UAV:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Tactical Airborne Platform for Aerial Surveillance Beyond Horizon-201, or Tapas BH-201, is a <strong>medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) drone<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>previouslyreferred to as Rustom-II.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>developed indigenously<\/strong> by the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) of <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/defence-research-and-development-organisation-drdo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Designed to fulfil the <strong>Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, Tracking &amp; Reconnaissance (ISTAR) <\/strong>requirements of the tri-services, the Tapas UAV can effectively <strong>operate both day and night<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It has an operating altitude of 30000 feet and an <strong>endurance of 24 hours.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It also projects a <strong>range of 250 km,<\/strong> which can carry a variety of payloads up to a maximum of 350 kg with a wing span of 20.6 metres.<\/li>\n<li>Maximum speed: 225 kmph.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It can be <strong>controlled remotely<\/strong> and also has the <strong>ability to execute pre-programmed flight plans autonomously<\/strong> with precision and flexibility.<\/li>\n<li>It is equipped with <strong>enhanced aerodynamic configuration<\/strong>, digital flight control, navigation system, communication intelligence, medium and long-range electro-optic payloads, and <strong>synthetic aperture radar<\/strong> that will enable it to see through the clouds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is an unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)?<\/h3>\n<p>An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is an aircraft that carries no human pilot or passengers. UAVs\u2014sometimes called drones\u2014can be fully or partially autonomous but are more often controlled remotely by a human pilot. RAND research has contributed to the public discussion on the use of drones for warfare and surveillance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicworld.com\/defence\/indian-armed-forces\/indian-air-force-to-purchase-of-10-indigenous-tapas-drones-to-enhance-surveillance-capabilities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Air Force to Purchase of 10 Indigenous TAPAS Drones to Enhance Surveillance Capabilities<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tactical Airborne Platform for Aerial Surveillance Beyond Horizon-201, or Tapas BH-201, is a medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) drone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}