{"id":9337,"date":"2022-10-20T10:50:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T05:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9337"},"modified":"2025-03-29T12:41:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T07:11:47","slug":"rustom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/rustom-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rustom-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Rustom-2:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Rustom-2 is also known as\u00a0<strong>Tapas-BH<\/strong>\u00a0(Tactical Airborne Platform for Aerial Surveillance-Beyond Horizon 201).<\/li>\n<li>It has been designed and developed by the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), Bengaluru, with the production partners being Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) and Bharat Electronics Ltd.<\/li>\n<li>It is powered by a small turbofan engine. The engine is Russian TRDD-50MT originally designed for cruise missiles.<\/li>\n<li>It is being developed to carry out surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) roles and is capable of carrying different combinations of advanced payload and capable of auto landing, among others.<\/li>\n<li>Its navigation was done using GAGAN satellites through the onboard SATCOM system.<\/li>\n<li>High endurance UAVs are a priority requirement for the Indian armed forces especially in view of the stand-off with China in eastern Ladakh.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/indigenous-uav-rustom-2-to-complete-user-trials-by-august-2023\/article66032155.ece?homepage=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rustom-2 is powered Russian engine TRDD-50MT originally designed for cruise missiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9337","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\/9337","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=9337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}