New Tech To Fight Drone Strikes In The Offing

On September 14, Saudi Arabia suffered the deadliest attack on its oil facilities.

- Kamaljit Kaur Sandhu

The shocking attack, which saw a small army of drones attack two major oil plants, destroyed nearly 50 per cent of the country’s global supply of crude. Questions arose with many experts asking whether India would be able to avert or pre-empt such an attack?

India Today TV has learnt that a blueprint to secure India’s civil airports and prevent such drone attacks is in advanced stages. Sources said an IIT Bombay alumni company, IdeaForge, has been tasked by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to come up with a solution by the year-end.

Taking seriously, intelligence inputs that terror groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba could use drones as platforms for IEDs to target Indian installations including airports, multiple field trials have been carried out in the past three months in Rohini area of Delhi. Sources said that IdeaForge, which designed the Netra drone along with the DRDO, was authorised after CISF was dissatisfied with field results carried out by western and domestic anti-drone makers. Top sources told India Today, “Several companies came in for the field test including Israel, German and Indian companies each promising state of the art technology.”