BonV Aero builds heavy-lift drones that fly cargo where vehicles can't go

Getting supplies to soldiers posted high in the Himalayas is one of the hardest logistics problems the Indian Army faces.

Roads give out, weather closes in, and helicopters are costly and scarce.

For the last stretch, much of the work is still done on foot or by mule.

, a deeptech startup based in Bhubaneswar, builds the machines meant to take over that job: heavy-lift electric drones that fly cargo to places vehicles cannot reach.

Two engineers, a decade apart