Engine running on cow dung, I bet.

Or they can buy drones from Pakistan... which also fire missiles, btw (unlike this PoS)... LOL

From which nether region did you pull THAT bullsplatter?

From Indian posters on Bharat Rakshak.. the main Indian military forum on the internet. Frequented by serving military.

I sometimes lurk.

There is nothing wrong with using hand-me-down American tech, mind you.

It just doesn't seem to be working out for our Indian friends, is all I am saying.

You based your entire post title on discussions on discussions in a chatroom?

No.

what, exactly, US tech did they use?

Damned if I know.

But you are welcome to ask them if you are curious.

maybe the Indian guys you hang online with are full of crap?

Quite possible. They are Indian after all... they claim to have invented intergalactic space travel 10,000 years ago.

However, I do know for sure they ARE serving military officers with name, rank and serial number, some of which I have had verified personally.

If they are saying it was based on American tech and I have no other sources to dispute that, I have no choice to assume they know what they are talking about.

From WIKI:

Rustom-II: An unmanned combat air vehicle based on Rustom-H model. It is often compared with Predator drones by Indian scientists and media.

It seems they have an obsession with Predator/Reaper.

UAVs have a much higher crash rate than manned aircraft.

We know.

But India claimed it could do loop the loops all year without landing even once.

Guess it just got tired and went into a spin....

They're also more expensive to operate.

I think that depends on the drone.

These are not as hi-tech as Global Hawk or such.

BTW, India has made drones before.

It's most successful one was "Nishant"... a low tech rail launched thing.

The entire fleet crashed. LOL

They have a habit of making stuff that never quite makes it all the way to real-world usefulness.

Their Israeli drones work fine however.

I suspect you keep no less than a dozen Indian websites open in browsers at all times, with phone notifications of new articles and posts, which you hurriedly rush to when your phone vibrates.

Why would I do a dumb thing like that?

Why would anyone???

I do have a life, you know.

A company selling drones marketed capabilities?

They weren't selling.

It was made by a govt agency (DRDO) for the use of the Indian army.

Not a commercial enterprise.

I still have no idea what I'm supposed to get out of something that stupid.

It's as if I went out there and crashed the ridiculous thing myself....

If I could've I would've. But I did not. And it turns out I never need to. They always manage to do themselves in.

Indian concept of flight....

Indian Airforce SU-30-MKI bye bye, 27 Feb 2019. thank you Pakistan Airforce.

Are there any actual pictures?

No... you can't have pictures of a Beyond Visual Range kill.

Indians admit they lost a SU-30 (a plane said to be impossible to kill... LOL).

Here is Indian news saying it before they put a blackout on their media (too embarrassing).

I found this.. a memorial erected on a Pakistani airforce base:

Call sign "Avenger" of No.221 Squadron... LOL

They are pretending it went down in an accident near Assam on the other side of India, a few months later. Can't quite lie about the missing number for too long so they show it up as an accident. LOL