{"id":100242,"date":"2026-03-28T21:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T21:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/iaf-starts-work-on-vayu-baan-indias-first-helicopter-dropped-drone-project\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T21:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T21:38:12","slug":"iaf-starts-work-on-vayu-baan-indias-first-helicopter-dropped-drone-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/iaf-starts-work-on-vayu-baan-indias-first-helicopter-dropped-drone-project\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF starts work on \u2018Vayu Baan\u2019, India\u2019s first helicopter-dropped drone project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vayu Baan is an indigenous air-launched effects (ALE) programme designed to integrate unmanned aerial systems directly with manned rotary-wing platforms. It is a small, autonomous drone designed to be dropped from a moving helicopter mid-flight. Once released, the drone unfolds its wings, activates its propulsion and operates as either a surveillance asset or a precision-guided munition (kamikaze drone).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vayu Baan is an indigenous air-launched effects (ALE) programme designed to integrate unmanned aerial systems directly with manned rotary-wing platforms. It is a small, autonomous drone designed to be dropped from a moving helicopter mid-flight. Once released, the drone unfolds its wings, activates its propulsion and operates as either a surveillance asset or a precision-guided&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/iaf-starts-work-on-vayu-baan-indias-first-helicopter-dropped-drone-project\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IAF starts work on \u2018Vayu Baan\u2019, India\u2019s first helicopter-dropped drone project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":100243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}