{"id":33721,"date":"2023-03-19T07:44:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T02:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=33721"},"modified":"2025-04-20T00:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T19:29:11","slug":"most-drones-crossing-the-border-originate-from-pak-rangers-outposts-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/most-drones-crossing-the-border-originate-from-pak-rangers-outposts-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Most drones crossing the border originate from Pak Rangers outposts: Agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Drones: Threat to Internal Security \u2013 Background, threat, challenges in tackling the threat, India\u2019s anti-drone technology<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Most cases of violation of international border by drones originating from Pakistan in the past one year have taken place in the Amritsar sector of the Border Security Force (BSF).<\/li>\n<li>This was revealed by the data accessed by leading news paper from security agencies in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>In Focus: Drones: Threat to Internal Security<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In June 2021, the Indian Air Force (IAF) base in Jammu was attacked using two low-intensity improvised explosive devices (IEDs).\n<ul>\n<li>These <u>IEDs were dropped from two drones<\/u>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It was the first time that suspected Pakistan-based terrorists have used unmanned aerial vehicles in an attack.<\/li>\n<li>These attacks have restarted a debate around drones as a threat to internal security.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>How are drones a threat to internal security?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Transfer of weaponry to terrorists<\/strong> \u2013\n<ul>\n<li>Drones are capable to ferry arms and ammunition across the international border.<\/li>\n<li>In December 2019, the Punjab police unmasked a terror network that was using drones to ferry arms and ammunition across the international border from Pakistan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Attack on critical infrastructure<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>In September 2019, the Saudi Arabia\u2019s largest oil field was attacked using a swarm of drones.<\/li>\n<li>This highlights the capability of drone in carrying out pinpointed attack on critical infrastructure of a nation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Intelligence gathering<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Drones have proved its usefulness in intelligence gathering and surveillance.<\/li>\n<li>If we closely analyze the pattern of drone detection on Indo Pak borders, we can say that drones are widely being used to gather information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Supports Organized Crime<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The use of drones, especially by the drug cartels, is not a new modus operandi.<\/li>\n<li>Recently, the drone, recovered by the BSF from Fazilka\u2019s (Punjab) bordering village, had two packets of heroin weighing around 1.6 kg.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Challenge to anti-terror operations<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Police and security forces, trained in conventional methods to counter-terrorism, find themselves clueless when confronting unmanned aerial vehicles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Why Tackling Drone is Challenging?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Conventional radar systems <u>fail to detect small flying objects<\/u>. If these radars are calibrated to detect drones, these systems might confuse a bird for a drone.<\/li>\n<li>Currently, border forces in India largely use eyesight to spot drones and then shoot them down.\n<ul>\n<li>Shooting these drones are very difficult as they fly at altitude difficult to target.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Technology to disable their navigation, interfere with their radio frequency, or just fry their circuits using high energy beams have also been tested.\n<ul>\n<li>None of these has, however, proven fool-proof.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>India\u2019s anti-drone technology<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>India\u2019s DRDO has made some investments in anti-drone technologies such as the ADITYA Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) and laser dazzles.<\/li>\n<li>The DRDO\u2019s Counter-Drone System was deployed for VVIP protection at:\n<ul>\n<li>the Republic Day parades in 2020 and 2021,<\/li>\n<li>former US President Donald Trump\u2019s visit to Motera Stadium, Ahmedabad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Hyderabad-based technology R&amp;D firm Grene Robotics has designed and developed <u>India\u2019s first indigenous drone defence dome called <\/u><strong><u>Indrajaal<\/u><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Punjab has witnessed a multi-fold increase in drone activities from across the international border with Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li>Security agencies are quite certain that these activities are aided and abetted by the Pakistan Rangers\u2019 border outposts since most such unmanned aerial vehicles originate from near them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/YDGcL-MYCG6Z3UEDdwvcOJIM8YFP3ZVs4KxT32Isna031RsTw_o02p8yI--1XbKduQ1sQEKQ_mDrz0kgOgOZqcoXqmJvqdQzUC4xZTp0g2lxQWlXfdbUwPW0uzUxs0kWshFQF3ZNKiJsc64YllwNiQ\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image Caption: Data on incoming UAVs from Pakistan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is indrajaal defence system?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Indrajaal is India&#8217;s first indigenous drone defence dome. It has a capability to autonomously protect an area of 1000-2000 square kilometres against the aerial threats by assessing and acting on aerial threats.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2) Who is the father of drone?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Abraham Karem is regarded as the founding father of UAV (drone) technology<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data shows most drone violation at border originates from Pakistan creating internal security threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}