The project demonstrates UAV-to-UAV aerial deployment, where one drone carries, positions, and deploys another drone mid-air, extending the mission beyond the reach of any single platform.

Such a capability could significantly enhance operational flexibility by extending range, improving mission endurance, and enabling drones to access areas that may otherwise be difficult to reach.

The company has the largest operational deployment of indigenous drones in India, with an ideaForge-manufactured UAV taking off every five minutes on average for surveillance and mapping missions. Its customers have collectively completed more than 950,000 flights using its drone platforms, demonstrating the scale and reliability of its technology. 

CEO Ankit Mehta said that modern aerial operations are no longer defined by what a single platform can do. According to him, it is defined by whether the platform can bring greater reach, flexibility, and mission effects that extend beyond the limits of any one system.

“Project ALE is our exploration in that direction,” he remarked. “An indigenous UAV-to-UAV aerial deployment concept, developed and flight-demonstrated by our team, designed to explore how autonomous systems can work together to unlock new operational possibilities.”