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.

Discuss a UAV Development Programme