Bharat Forge, Pratt & Whitney Advance India’s HALE UAV

Bharat Forge and Pratt & Whitney Canada want to help build an Indian aircraft that can fly very high and stay in the air for a long time.

This kind of aircraft is called a high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle, or HALE UAV.

It can fly without a person sitting inside it.

The aircraft is being developed through a Defence Research and Development Organisation programme.

Pratt & Whitney Canada will check whether its turboprop engines work well with the aircraft.

Bharat Forge will work on connecting the engines to the aircraft and its other systems.

HALE UAVs can be used for long-lasting surveillance and intelligence missions over land and seas.

The partnership is part of India’s effort to develop more of its own defence and aerospace technology.