{"id":222642,"date":"2023-08-21T00:34:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T19:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=222642"},"modified":"2023-08-21T00:34:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T19:04:39","slug":"drdo-made-uav-crashes-in-village-in-karnataka-due-to-technical-snag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/08\/21\/drdo-made-uav-crashes-in-village-in-karnataka-due-to-technical-snag\/","title":{"rendered":"DRDO-made UAV crashes in village in Karnataka due to technical snag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chitradurga (Karnataka), 20 Aug: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) crashed in the agriculture fields of a village in Chitradurga district of Karnataka following a technical snag on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe DRDO said the technical issue is being investigated, however, there was no &#8220;collateral damage&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe UAV &#8212; TAPAS 07 A-14 &#8212; fell outside Vaddikere village in Hiriyur taluk of the district, according to the official sources.<br \/>\n&#8220;TAPAS UAV was undergoing an experimental flight trial today morning from ATR Challakere, Karnataka. During the flight, a technical snag was encountered and the UAV crashed in a nearby farmland. The technical reason is being investigated and there is no collateral damage,&#8221; the DRDO said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).<br \/>\nVideos and images show that the TAPAS experimental UAV broke following the crash and its equipment inside scattered on the field.<br \/>\nA large number of villagers gathered at the spot soon after the UAV crashed with a loud noise, and alerted the local authorities. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chitradurga (Karnataka), 20 Aug: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) crashed in the agriculture fields of a village in Chitradurga district of Karnataka following a technical snag on Sunday. The DRDO said the technical issue is being investigated, however, there was no &#8220;collateral damage&#8221;. The UAV &#8212; TAPAS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-222642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}