Was this project about HALE UAV known before ? If no, then I am damn sure now that Aero India 2023 is truly a blessing in disguise.
And the powerplant of Archer NG was supposed to be an indigenous engine developed by CVRDE, no ? Will this Austro engine be used for first few batches only and later on that 180 HP engine developed by CVRDE ?
People fail to understand this. That's why we need to feed on scrap and reverse engineer what we can get our hands on.
I doubt,it's looking like a half finished scaled down model ,and the it is Fufa I guess,not the Ghatak. So it must take more time.still 5 years away imo