Summary
It can fly up to 200 kilometres and land on tiny spots like a playground. 🛬
The Indian government is giving money to help build it safely. 💰
It will help bring supplies to places where roads are hard to reach. 🏔️
Key Points
4 points1
YETI can carry up to 200 kilograms of cargo.
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It can travel up to 200 kilometres and fly as high as 6,500 metres.
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The project has 151 crore rupees of funding from the Technology Development Board.
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The drone can take off vertically and then fly like a plane.
New Words to Learn
21 wordsindigenous
made in the country
autonomous
able to work by itself
logistics
moving and delivering things
payload
the weight a vehicle can carry
kilograms
a unit that measures weight
kilometres
a unit that measures distance
altitude
how high something is in the sky
vertical take‑off and landing
lifting straight up from the ground and landing the same way
fixed‑wing
has wings that do not move, like an airplane
unmanned aerial vehicle
a flying machine without a pilot inside
Technology Readiness Level
a way to measure how ready a new technology is
engineering
building and designing things
integration
putting many parts together
validation
checking that something works correctly
weather‑resistant
able to work even when the weather is bad
distributed
spread out over many places
redundant
having extra parts in case one fails
propulsion
how something moves forward
fault tolerance
still works even if something goes wrong
navigation
finding the way to go
communication
sending and receiving messages
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