{"id":3570,"date":"2023-01-31T01:22:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T19:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:00:52","slug":"what-is-d4-drone-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-d4-drone-system\/","title":{"rendered":"What is D4 Drone system?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Key facts about D4 Drone System:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What is it?<\/strong> The Drone Detect, Deter and Destroy system (D4S) is the <strong>first indigenously developed anti-drone system<\/strong> to be inducted into the Indian Armed Forces.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>developed by <\/strong>Defence Research and Development Organisation (<strong>DRDO<\/strong>) and <strong>manufactured by Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose<\/strong>: To <strong>detect rogue drones<\/strong> that are likely to attack most vulnerable places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>D4 system can <strong>instantly detect and jam<\/strong> micro drones (<strong>Soft kill<\/strong>) and use a <strong>laser-based kill mechanism<\/strong> to terminate targets (<strong>Hard kill<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>uses DRDO&#8217;s RF\/Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) to detect the frequency <\/strong>which is being used by the controller and the signals are then jammed.<\/li>\n<li>It can <strong>detect and jam<\/strong> micro-drones at a distance of <strong>up to 3 km.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It can <strong>lase a target 1-1.25 km far<\/strong> depending on the wattage of the laser weapon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>About Aero India:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a biennial air show and aviation exhibition held in Bengaluru, India at the Yelahanka Air Force Station.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is organised by the Defence Exhibition Organisation, Ministry of Defence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is an anti-drone system?<\/h3>\n<p>Anti-drone systems are designed to counter-drone technologies and interfere with them in various ways and are used to detect and\/or intercept unwanted drones and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/bengaluru\/ai-to-missile-systems-bel-to-put-up-big-show-at-aero-india\/articleshow\/97469366.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>AI to missile systems, BEL to put up big show at Aero India<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D4 system is the first indigenously developed anti-drone system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570","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=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}