navy: "Endurance of 33 hours in the air..." Navy chief gives details of Predator drone surveillance capability
"Indian Navy has been operating these drones. They fall in the category of the HALE, (high altitude long endurance drones). So, we realised there is a need for having these drones for better surveillance and increased maritime domain awareness," Kumar said. He further added, "So we had taken two of these on lease from November 2020 onwards. And since then we have been operating it."