MUMBAI, India, Feb. 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641017528 A) filed by Magadikar Srujan Joshi, Hyderabad, Telangana, on Feb. 17, for 'rocket-assisted hybrid fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle with axial thrust alignment and integrated through-fuselage vertical lift system.'
Inventor(s) include Magadikar Srujan Joshi.
The application for the patent was published on Feb. 27, under issue no. 09/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Conventional UAV systems typically require runway or catapult launch in the case of fixed-wing aircraft, or suffer from limited endurance and high drag in the case of multirotor configurations. Hybrid VTOL systems often utilize tilt-rotor mechanisms or external lift rotors that increase structural complexity and aerodynamic drag. Rocket-assisted systems are generally associated with expendable platforms and are not commonly integrated into reusable fixed-wing UAV architectures with controlled vertical descent capability."
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