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How Will a Super Drone Deliver Packages to Remote Places? 🚀

India’s Technology Development Board is funding 151 crore rupees to build YETI, a heavy‑lift autonomous drone.

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Key Points

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Funding: 151 crore rupees from the Research Development and Innovation Fund.

Payload capacity: 200 kilograms.

Range: 200 kilometres; altitude up to 6,500 metres.

Features: vertical take‑off, fixed‑wing flight, weather‑resistant design, GPS‑independent navigation.

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YETI can lift up to 200 kilograms and travel 200 kilometres without needing roads.

It can take off straight up and then fly like a plane, landing on small clearings.

The drone is designed to work in mountains, deserts and over the sea, even when GPS signals are weak.

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Technology Development Board

a government group that supports new inventions

Research Development and Innovation Fund

money set aside to help research and new ideas

autonomous

works by itself without a driver

payload

the weight it can carry

kilograms

a way to measure weight

kilometres

a way to measure distance

vertical take‑off and landing

rising straight up from the ground and landing the same way

fixed‑wing

has wings that stay still, like an airplane

weather‑resistant

can work even in bad weather

GPS

a system that tells where you are using satellites

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