UAV Lakshya misses target, crashes in farm

Balasore (Odisha): In what is seen as temporary setback to India’s effort to achieve rapid progress in development of unmarried aerial vehicle (UAV) and their optimum use by the Army for self-defence, Lakshya, an advanced UAV, on Friday crash-landed in a farmland in Odisha’s Balasore district.

According to reports, a few minutes after its flying in the morning, the UAV of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed on a patch of agricultural field at Chandamani near Baliapal.

However, no loss of life and property was reported in the incident, informed Balsore superintendent of police (SP) Niti Shekhar.

Though the exact reason behind the crash was not immediately known, it was suspected that the UAV crashed due to some technical glitches during its routine sortie.

Developed by the DRDO, Lakshya is a pilotless target aircraft or PTA that acts as a reusable aerial target system.