“Army this week floated the tender for procurement of nine more indigenous integrated drone detection and interdiction systems. IAF, in turn, wants 10 new kamikaze drones-based anti-swarm drone systems and 100-200 vehicle-mounted counter-UAS. A major problem, however, is that India is way behind other countries in indigenously developing such complex technologies. The Modi-Trump summit, incidentally, welcomed the new partnership between US company Anduril Industries and Indian Mahindra Group on advanced autonomous technologies to co-produce an \”advanced AI-enabled counter- UAS\” The armed forces are stepping up induction of a wide array of anti-drone systems but underline the urgent need for more advanced ones. \”There is a mounting threat from low radar cross-section UAS and swarm drones,\” an officer said. ‘The lack of adequate effective multi-sensor, multi-kill systems against smaller drones is an operational gap,’ he said.”
