"When the threat flies at 150 km/h, your air-defence must train against exactly that."
Operational Reality
Operation Sindoor (May 2025), the Russia–Ukraine war, and Iran–Israel drone exchanges confirmed that the low-speed, low-flying one-way attack drone — exemplified by the Shahed-136 — is now the defining threat of modern conflict. These are cheap, piston-engined, and fly at 100–200 km/h.
Every Indian aerial target system — Abhyas, Lakshya, Banshee — is jet-powered and optimised for high-speed interception training. None can replicate the flight profile, radar cross-section, infrared, or acoustic signature of a piston-engined OWA drone. Air-defence weapons, seekers, and C-UAS systems cannot be validated against the real threat. And now imports are barred.
The Indigenous Solution
Signature & Capability
Market & Opportunity
Post-Operation Sindoor, the drone threat is no longer theoretical for Indian defence planners. Every air-defence unit, every DRDO seeker lab, every C-UAS developer now requires a realistic low-speed piston-engined target to train against, validate systems on, and qualify weapons for.
The MoD's Positive Indigenisation List has closed the import option definitively. KAS is the only company in India purpose-building this class of aerial target — with the technical depth, certification advisory, and sovereign avionics stack to reach programme-of-record status.
Target Customers
Leadership & Credibility