ISLAMABAD – Indian Border Security Force to be equipped with advancedsystems along International borders with Pakistan.
India Border Security Force BSF troops guarding the 200-km-longInternational Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir will soon be armed withanti-drone system, officials said on Tuesday.
“We are working on it,” a senior officer told PTI.
Another set of officials said on Tuesday that anti-drone systems will soonbe put in place along the IB in Jammu-Samba-Kathua belt to foil any attemptby Pakistan to effect a drone intrusion in future.
“The process of induction is on,” one of the officials said, adding thatinitially five to six systems will be deployed in the area of operation onthe Jammu frontier.The force is also training troops to handle these systems, the officialsaid.
In October last year, the BSF had issued an Expression of Interest (EoI)for acquiring the ‘Anti Drone System’. The EoI was issued after severalinstances of UAVs dropping arms in Punjab from across the border werereported.
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As per the specifications, the force has sought a ground-based anti-dronesystem in stand-alone platform. The instrument will run on rechargeablebatteries, the BSF has stated as the system has to be deployed intough-to-access border areas that includes dense forests, desert, riversand others.
The system, the BSF specification said, should be capable to detect a lonesuspicious flying object or group of UAVs (swarm attack) from a distanceand should be capable to detect a target them within 10 seconds.
It (system) should be capable to do a real-time scan, detection, track andneutralisation of flying objects like multi-copters, fixed wing UAVs andradio-controlled UAVs in 360-degree environment, the October draftspecifications said.
