Where does India stand on anti-drone infrastructure? Better battery systems have been incorporated giving the drone larger endurance,' Gopal said. 'New flight modes that have been introduced in UAVs or drones which include obstacle avoidance using ultrasonic sensors, terrain mapping cameras integrated as SoC, follow me, tapfly, active track and sports mode.

Not only the counter-drone systems will have to be capable of detecting and neutralising a growing variety of targets, but also differentiating between legitimate and potentially threatening drones will be a massive challenge itself. The focus was immediately laid upon to have an effective Counter Unmanned Aircraft System (C-UAS) to: In presence of a sheer number of UAS, the evolving drone threats are difficult to counter due to their different sizes, flight characteristics, capabilities, performance parameters, mission and vulnerabilities. The National Counter Rogue Drone Guidelines have accepted the ineffectiveness of the traditional air defence systems against small, slow, low-flying drones. Hence, the risk of aerospace safety and threat to vital installations from rogue drones require the security establishment to devise regulatory mechanism and protective security apparatus to inhibit extremist groups from using these platforms for their ulterior purposes.' India, too is not immune to such threats. In near procrastination of what might happen in the future, and which became a reality in the wee hours last Sunday in Jammu during the drone attack in the IAF base, the guidelines had said, 'The sub-conventional threat from rogue unmanned aerial platforms has emerged as a new threat spectrum with an expanded list of target systems and vulnerability levels from the 'bad actors'. It said referring to the Israel-Lebanon war in 2006, 'In certain incidents, the small drones were also armed with explosive ordnance, to convert them into potentially lethal guided missiles, thus demonstrating the growing sophistication with which these potent warriors have found relevance in combat zones.' The National Counter Rogue Drone Guidelines, 2019, clearly mentioned the threat that rogue drones pose to India. It is estimated that there are 6 lakh rogue drones. Vivek Gopal in his paper Developing an Effective Anti-Drone System for India’s Armed Forces while describing the threat that drones possess said, 'Drones have low Radar Cross Section (RCS), slow speed and a small size - these characteristics make the task of detection difficult, and thereafter, identification and localisation even more so.' It is time to get battle-ready.ĭrones become dangerous depending on who is operating them and with what intention. Understandably, India hardly has any time to build a robust anti-drone capability so that this delivery platform does not allow evil minds to land the country into a catastrophic and tragic circumstance. With fast modifications of the platform structure, payload technology and miniaturisation of various components, the threat level is humongous. This essentially means drones are available in the country in large numbers and can be probably weaponised by anyone, anywhere and anytime. For a country that has an Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) market pegged at $866 million and simultaneously a global market that has touched $21.47 billion, the audacious drone attacks on Sunday at the Air Force Station in Jammu must be sending shivers down the spine in the concerned corners.

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