Role & capabilities
- Loitering munition
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Loitering munition
- Developer / manufacturer
- Solar Group
- Origin / production countries
- India
- Other names
- Nagastra; Nagastra 1
- Variants / configurations
- NAGASTRA-1; later derivatives require separate validation
- Operators / programme customers
- Indian Army — supplier-reported delivery
Evidence & current status
Delivery is a manufacturer claim. No complete configuration-specific public specification was established from the reviewed sources.
NAGASTRA-1 is a loitering-munition programme within Solar Group's defence portfolio. The company's corporate history records an initial order in 2023 and states that delivery to the Indian Army was achieved during its 2024–25 reporting period. Those statements provide a procurement and delivery trail that distinguishes the programme from an exhibition-only proposal.
The open corporate pages reviewed here do not provide a complete, configuration-specific aircraft data sheet. Consequently, this profile does not infer endurance, aircraft mass, operating radius or payload capacity from specifications circulating for later versions. It also does not treat the supplier's flight-trial success statement as an independent assessment of military effectiveness.
For industry readers, the programme is relevant as a domestically supplied Indian loitering munition rather than an imported surveillance aircraft. Its entry separates supplier-reported delivery from the details needed for a full technical comparison. The next editorial priority is an accessible manufacturer specification for the delivered NAGASTRA-1 baseline, together with an official customer acceptance statement and clarification of the relationship to subsequent named derivatives.
2023: Initial order reported. Solar Group's corporate history records the first NAGASTRA-1 order in 2023.
2024–2025: Army delivery reported. Supplier's reporting-period history states delivery to the Indian Army.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source ↗ |
| Launch / recovery | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source ↗ |
| Propulsion | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source ↗ |
| Dimensions | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source ↗ |
| Mass | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source ↗ |
| Endurance | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source ↗ |
| Range | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source ↗ |
| Speed | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source ↗ |
| Altitude | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source ↗ |
| Payload | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source ↗ |
| Sensors | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source ↗ |
| Communications / navigation | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source ↗ |
Publication history
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