SAHAYAK-NG Air Dropped Container:
- Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) along with Indian Navy conducted the successful maiden test trial of ‘SAHAYAK-NG’. This test was conducted off the coast of Goa on 30 December 2020 from an IL-38SD aircraft of the Indian Navy.
SAHAYAK-NG is India’s first indigenously designed and developed Air Dropped Container that can be landed from the sky to the surface. It reduces the requirement of ships to come close to the coast to collect spares and stores.