India’s border guarding force BSF will soon be equipped with a modern technology to counter rogue drones getting used to smuggle arms and medicines within the western sector of the country by Pakistan-based suspected group of smugglers and militants to destabilise the law and order situation within the country.
Findings regarding “counter drone solutions” are under the method to urge obviate the criminality that intelligence agencies warned has potential to harm internal and external security.
An anti-radio frequency (RF) transmission is being developed to assist the Border private security force (BSF) in controlling the continued menace by breaking the link of drones flown by their handlers sitting somewhere in Pakistan, a source aware about the event told IANS.
“Live trials are started and therefore the second pilot run has just got over. We are within the process of finalising our reports which we’ll undergo the Ministry of Home Affairs soon. From solution testing to drone detection and target system, all the aspects are being covered,” the source said requesting anonymity.
Explaining the system, another source said: “In order to control a drone remotely, you must be able to communicate with it wirelessly. Radio frequency wave is an invisible wave form on the spectrum to regulate these drones remotely. A system to interrupt the frequency is being developed.
“Like all things on the spectrum , radio is measured in hertz (Hz). Extremely low frequency is anywhere from 3Hz to three 0Hz and tremendously high frequency is from 300 GHz to 3,000 GHz. For radio to figure , you want to have a transmitter to send the messages and a receiver to receive the messages. At a rudimentary level, this is often how remotely controlling an aircraft is accomplished. More precisely, your transmitter and receiver got to be tuned to an equivalent frequency. All points are going to be measured to regulate the frequency or break it.”
The “radio frequency identification” system will help capture the frequency and control it from here or break its connection from other side, said the source.
An official within the Home Ministry told IANS that drone technology has immense potential and, as per NITI Aayog, the world is probably going to succeed in $50 billion within the next 15 years. “As the technology is getting used to smuggle arms and narcotics into India, an early solution is that the need of the hour in sight of internal security and other aspects,” he said.
The BSF, which is guarding 3,323 km India-Pakistan borders which are getting used to smuggle arms and medicines , has been working during this direction with the assistance of varied private drone manufacturing firms and other stakeholders handling such manufacturing and counter drone solution firms to urge the answer .
As local manufacturing of drones has inherit light from the evidences recovered from the drones seized thus far , intelligence agencies have warned of potential internal and external threats to the country.
As the work to develop an anti-drone system is already ongoing for the past one year, the BSF stressed on the world in sight of some recent incidents.
Earlier this month, the Punjab Police had recovered an AK-47 rifle and a magazine with 30 cartridges, evidently a part of an equivalent consignment of 11 Arges and 84 hand grenades which were dropped by a Pakistani drone within the borderland of Gurdaspur.
The seizure came amid concerns raised by Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh of fresh spurt of efforts by Pakistan-based militants to disturb the border state’s peace.
According to Punjab Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta, the recovered assault gun and therefore the magazine with 30 cartridges had been attached to a wooden frame and lowered from the drone with a nylon rope just like the hand grenades which were recovered from Salach village.
Alert security forces deployed along the international border with Pakistan had spotted a drone in Jammu district in November end and had opened fire to force it to return to the neighbouring country. The police said the drone was spotted on the Indian side of the international border in Arnia sector in RS Pura. The BSF troops fired at the drone after which it withdrew to the Pakistan side.
Drones are utilized in recent times by militants and their handlers to drop weapons etc. on the Indian side of the international border.

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