Engineering service · Complete platform development
UAV Design & Development
End-to-end unmanned-aircraft development, from mission requirements to a flight-ready UAV platform — with aircraft configuration, aircraft-level requirements and platform integration led by Kesari on Kesari-led programmes.
Overview
Kesari develops UAV platforms as complete aircraft: the configuration, aerodynamics, structure and propulsion installation are engineered together against a defined mission, rather than assembled from a fixed airframe.
We take a mission requirement — speed, altitude, range, endurance, payload, launch and recovery, operating environment and signature — and translate it into aircraft-level design requirements before a configuration is selected.
What we support
Complete UAV development programmes, and the early conceptual and preliminary-design phases that de-risk a programme before detailed design begins.
Engineering scope
- Mission requirements definition and interpretation
- Conceptual design
- Configuration development
- Preliminary sizing
- Aerodynamic layout
- Wing loading & thrust loading
- Mass and CG development
- Aircraft-level trade studies
- Propulsion matching
- Design baseline definition
Typical inputs
- Mission and operating requirements
- Payload and sensor constraints
- Launch / recovery method
- Environmental and range requirements
- Programme and manufacturing constraints
Typical deliverables
- Aircraft-level requirements set
- Configuration baseline and layout
- Preliminary mass / CG and loading budgets
- Aerodynamic and performance summary
- Development roadmap to detailed design
Where it fits in aircraft development
This is the front of the aircraft-development process: it produces the configuration baseline that aerodynamics, structures, stability & control and propulsion integration all build on, and it feeds directly into the stage-gated development flow through to flight test.
Why Kesari
Kesari leads at aircraft-level — configuration, requirements and integration — combining contemporary UAV engineering and digital methods with senior aircraft-design experience across fighter, trainer and unmanned aircraft programmes.
Related capabilities
Have a mission, need a platform?
Start with a short brief on the mission and constraints — we will outline the aircraft-level approach.