India joins bat-wing large UAV club

dia aerospace journalist Shiv Aroor's LiveFist blog today brings us the first conceptual renderings of AURA, the stealth UCAV project that India apparently decided to leak into the public domain a few weeks ago.

 

























India's is part of a growing global craze for bat-wing-shaped UAVs.

Consider the following list of acknowledged, bat-wing UCAV projects in development across the world:

• BAE Systems Taranis
• Boeing Phantom Ray
• Dassault Neuron
• Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel
• Mikoyan Skat
• Northrop Grumman X-47B