India gambles on building a leading drone industry

  • 📰 BBCTech
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 37 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 18%
  • Publisher: 55%

Nigeria News News

Nigeria Nigeria Latest News,Nigeria Nigeria Headlines

A ban on imported drones has spurred Indian firms to make drones and train pilots.

Mumbai

Drones come in all shapes and sizes. The smaller ones typically have three of four rotors and can carry something small like a camera. The biggest, usually used by the military, look more like aeroplanes and can carry substantial payloads. The government wants to develop a home-grown industry that can design and assemble drones and make the components that go into their manufacture.

Neel Mehta is the co-founder of Asteria Aerospace, which has been building drones for 10 years. He welcomes the government's efforts to boost the sector. Currently drones do all sorts of jobs in India. Police use them for monitoring the traffic and border security forces use them to search for smugglers and traffickers.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 81. in NG

Nigeria Nigeria Latest News, Nigeria Nigeria Headlines