Published on 18 Feb 2025
• The Indian Army has received the first batch of Nagastra-1, India’s first indigenously developed loitering munition, also known as a “suicide drone.”
• It is designed and developed by Economics Explosives Ltd (EEL), a subsidiary of Solar Industries Nagpur, in collaboration with Bangalore’s Z-Motion.
• Nagastra-1 flies like a small drone, loiters over a target, and can attack with a bomb.
• It has a ‘Kamikaze mode’ for search and destroy missions and can carry out precision strikes via GPS with an accuracy of two metres.
• Unlike typical suicide drones, Nagastra-1 can abort a mission, be retrieved with a parachute, and be reused.
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