Bengaluru: A new anti-drone system developed by a Lt Col of the Indian Army is all set to hand the nation’s defence forces more power in tackling the threat of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in strategic border areas. Aero India 2023: Army officer develops anti drone system.
Lt Col Sadanand Chauhan from the Indian Army’s Corps of Signals, a computer engineer by qualification, has developed a radio frequency or RF-based counter-drone system that has been tested by the Army internally and deployed in some of the front-line units in border areas.
“The system has achieved operational objectives and the feedback from the troops is positive. We are working on its range to detect and counter enemy drones. We will make certain changes to it according to the requirements of the field units,” Lt Col Chauhan, who presented the system at Aero India.
Lt Col Chauhan briefed Lt Gen BS Raju, the Vice-Chief-of-Army Staff, about the new defence system during the latter’s visit to Aero India.
To counter aerial threats, last month, Indian Army had floated a request for proposal (RFP) to procure vehicle-based drone jammers. The development assumes significance in the backdrop of the Army detecting several drones from across the border in the south western and northern sectors in the last two years.
Various methods are used to jam enemy drones, one of which is RF-jamming that disrupts the radio frequency link between a drone and its operator by generating large volumes of RF impinging.
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