Indigenously developed UAV of army crashes near Pokhran

 An indigenously-developed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) of the Indian Armycrashed near Pokhran in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan due to a technical glitch.

• It was a second incident in 15 days as the last crash took place in the same area on November 4.

The Nishant UAV programme is as good as dead now, with the Army deciding not to purchase any more Nishant. In the past DRDO has blamed poor handling by the army for the loss. But, the army has maintained that they failed to perform and had technical problems

• A blame game is on between the DRDO and the Army over the three earlier crashes.