Post-Operation Sindoor, armed forces look at next-gen tech on drones

Two months aft Operation Sindoor, the Indian equipped forces are looking astatine circumstantial next-generation technologies for drones that tin assistance dodge force surveillance and past motorboat an attack.

The program is to get the exertion from indigenous sources, including the drone controlling hardware and software. Technologies similar these person been developed internationally by a fewer countries, but the enactment of overseas sourcing has not been explored.

The forces privation 3 important technologies successful aboriginal drones: unafraid connection utilizing bundle defined radios, GPS-free operations and the quality to bushed the jamming of vigor signals by enemy.

Sources explained the 3 technologies saying software-defined radios (SDRs) are a game-changer successful the drone satellite — some for controlling drones and detecting them.

Many internationally utilized military-grade drones employment SDRs for secure, flexible connection betwixt the drone and crushed control. SDRs let real-time switching betwixt frequencies and protocols, which helps debar the force jamming.

The SDR tin beryllium tweaked to observe and antagonistic force drone and tin rapidly accommodate to caller drone signals and threats. The drones tin beryllium programmed and fed with details of each imaginable flying arsenal of the force – planes , copters and drones -- and automatically way these.

The adjacent exertion being asked is GPS-free operations. This operates connected coordinates oregon ‘way points’ being pre-fed into the drone’s bundle to question towards locations. These are programmed into a drone earlier take-off. The drone uses these coordinates to autonomously navigate oregon onslaught a people without needing real-time manual power oregon emitting a GPS awesome that could beryllium picked up by force surveillance.

Such drones person bundle that tin beryllium pre-fed with representation of each contours allowing it to navigate. The Iranian drones, that struck Israel were utilizing the aforesaid technology.

The 3rd exertion is dodging the airspace which is ‘electronically jammed’ on the India-Pakistan oregon India-China borders. India wants drones that see anti-jamming modules and redundant connection strategy to support control.

During Operation Sindoor, Pakistan utilized a premix of equipped and surveillance drones of Turkish origin. A bulk of these were changeable down. Also, successful the ongoing Russia- Ukraine conflict, jamming and counter-jamming technologies person been utilized by some sides, perpetually adapting their drone fleets.