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BITS Pilani Hostel To Defence Breakthrough: 2 Youngsters Built India’s 498 km/h Ahuti Mk II Drone

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Two BITS Pilani students, Jayant Khatri and Sourya Choudhury, turned their passion for drones into Apollyon Dynamics, a homegrown defence-tech startup developing unmanned aerial systems for India’s armed forces.Their latest breakthrough, the Ahuti Mk II, has achieved a certified top speed of 498 km/h, earning recognition in the India Book of Records and setting a new benchmark for multirotor UAVs in South Asia based on publicly available data. From experimenting in a college environment to developing high-performance UAVs for defence applications, this is the story of India’s emerging student-led defence-tech revolution. Mobile App – https://onelink.to/desc-youtube