Military Uses of UAVsIndia is already operating a total of over 186 Israel-made drones including 108 IAI Searchers and 68 unarmed Heron-1 aircraft for surveillance and reconnaissance missions, Harops and Nishants. The Indian Army requires medium altitude UAVs operating to a ceiling of 20,000 to 30,000 feet, mini and micro drones. The Army requires mini-UAVs with weight up to 10kgs, range 10 to 30 kms, payload –high resolution gimbaled day & night sensors, endurance up to 2 hours. At the brigade level, commanders would like to have UAVs to add exponentially to the information which can be gathered in real time. At the Division level, UAVs should provide coverage up to 200 kms.Civil Uses of UAVsThe development of UAVs will change the way services will be delivered in the security, transport,gas, oil, mining, agriculture,survey-mapping, disaster management and specially the infrastructure sector. Hiring and outsourcing of UAV operations including data analysis is likely to see a jump.
Indian Military Review is one of the major Indian defense magazines. This magazine which is abbreviated as IMR is published by IDYB Group. Since the year of 1931 IDYB Group has been dedicated to publish military books in India. This company is dedicated to primarily a niche market of minds that are academically and rationally advanced. This is a rare magazine that offers non partisan analyses to middle level officers. Even the young officers can gain lot of information and knowledge from this magazine. The main office of this company is situated in Janpath New Delhi India. Major General RK Arora is Executive Editor of the Indian Military Review. This company hosts numerous events like the UV India. The aim of IMR is to become the most important monthly and yearly defense publication in India.