{"id":19164,"date":"2024-01-10T07:44:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T02:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19164"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T10:12:03","slug":"drishti-10-starliner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/drishti-10-starliner\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Drishti 10 \u2018Starliner\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Drishti 10 \u2018Starliner\u2019<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an\u00a0indigenously manufactured Unmanned Aerial Vehicle\u00a0(UAV).<\/li>\n<li>It was developed\u00a0by Adani Defence and Aerospace.<\/li>\n<li>It is an advanced\u00a0intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platform with\u00a036 hours endurance and a\u00a0450 kg payload capacity.<\/li>\n<li>It is an\u00a0all-weather military platform which has clearance to\u00a0fly in both segregated and unsegregated airspace.<\/li>\n<li>It is designed to possess high endurance, combat-proven capabilities, and advanced features, providing a significant boost to India\u2019s naval capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>The UAV\u2019s\u00a0autonomous nature, coupled with its mission effectiveness and payload configuration options, makes it an invaluable asset for strategic operations.<\/li>\n<li>One of the distinguishing features of the Drishti 10 \u2018Starliner\u2019 is its\u00a0minimal maintenance requirements, making it cost-effective and operationally efficient.<\/li>\n<li>This characteristic ensures\u00a0increased operational readiness, reducing downtime, and maximizing deployment opportunities.<\/li>\n<li>It is equipped with\u00a0advanced communication systems, including\u00a0satellite communication and Line-of-Sight (LOS) data links, ensuring reliable and secure data transmission.<\/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.ndtv.com\/india-news\/navy-to-get-first-india-made-starliner-drone-today-4833642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Adani Group Unveils India&#8217;s First Medium Altitude, Long Endurance Drone<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drishti 10 \u2018Starliner\u2019 is an indigenously manufactured Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19164","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\/19164","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=19164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}