News 18 · DistrictNews · 2026-09-09
BITS Pilani Hostel To Defence Breakthrough: 2 Youngsters Built India’s 498
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.
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