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Twin-rotor unmanned helicopter

SHIKHAR

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Two rotors.
No tail rotor.

Lifts off from a patch of rock.

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Built for the roof of the world.

Heavy lift, in thin air, without a runway. SHIKHAR carries what a team needs to the places roads don't reach, at altitudes where most drones can't fly loaded.

Payload

Hooks on.
Lifts off.

50kg
for a full hour
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Range

Over the ridge.
And the next one.

100km
in just 40 minutes, with 50 kg on the hook.
60min
Endurance with 50 kg
Design targets · 150–170 km/h cruise

Everything it needs.
Nothing it doesn't.

One engine. Two intermeshing rotors. Torque cancels, so all the power goes into lift. It flies itself, from take-off to touchdown.

No tail rotor

Intermeshing rotors cancel each other's torque.

Autonomous

Plans, flies and lands on its own, with or without a link.

Autorotation

If power is lost, the rotors bring it down under control.

Made in India

Designed, developed and built in India.

JU-1B/E · Jet UAV

Rail-launched.
No runway required.

JU-1B/E · Rail launch

Off the rail.
Straight into the climb.

20kg
Payload
Long transits. Wide-area search. A gimballed EO/IR camera in the nose.
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THERMAL · TRACKING
Thermal Seeker AI

Finds it.
Confirms it.
Tracks it.

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Day or night. Through smoke and haze. On board the aircraft.
Simulated sensor view

One AI core.
Four ways it keeps flying.

The same autonomy stack runs across every Zen Kinematics 8 Systems aircraft, so it navigates, talks, protects itself and finishes the job when the world gets in the way.

No GPS? No problem.

Cameras and inertial sensors keep it on course when satellite signals are jammed or gone.

Holds the link.

Jammed on one band, it hops to another, then relays through another aircraft. Encrypted throughout.

Runs only trusted code.

A hardware root of trust checks every stage before it flies.

Finishes the mission.

If contact drops, it re-plans around hazards and completes the task.

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Command · 1

One command.

SHIKHAR and JU-1 fly as motherships.

Command · 2

They launch the fleet.

Each mothership sends out smaller UAVs: multirotors and fixed-wing VTOLs.

Command · 3

What one sees,
all see.

Every UAV streams its sensor data to the mothership. The mothership shares the full picture with every aircraft.

Command · 4

One order moves
the whole fleet.

The mothership shifts the area of interest. Every UAV re-routes to cover it.

Command · 5

Lose one.
Another takes its place.

If a UAV goes down, a reserve flies in and the mission carries on.

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Zen Kinematics 8 Systems

We design, build and fly autonomous aircraft for the mountains, the sea and the borders. Designed, developed and manufactured in India.