Chandigarh: On the night of 28 November, BSF shot down two Pak drones of two large sizes in the area of Darya Manzoor and Harbhajan Border Outpost (BOP), while another Pak drone was made to fly back from Pakistan territory by its pilot was. Vadai Cheema BOP. The sudden change in the type and type of machines being flown by Pakistan smugglers can be attributed to the installation of anti-drone technology by the BSF along the 553-km Indo-Pak international border in Punjab, according to BSF Director General Pankaj Kumar in recent days. was. Singh had said that the infiltration of Pak aerial vehicle has doubled.
Highly placed sources said that with frequent ‘failed’ sorties, Pakistani Rangers and Pakistani ISI-backed smugglers suffered heavy losses, following which they decided to use old flying machines to infiltrate inside Indian territory. Sources with access to the shot-down Pak drone told Zee News that the hexacopter was fitted with 4 batteries, 6 propellers from Falcon company, 1 antenna, 4 Camelon 1200 mAh batteries and 1 autopilot device from Cubic company.
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“From the looks of it, it appears to be the biggest drone ever shot down by the BSF in the Punjab frontier, but at the same time it appears to be locally assembled in Pakistan, which is cheaper,” sources said. Another advantage of the installation of anti-drone technology along the Indo-Pak international border is almost zero drone flying by Indian smugglers who, in the past, used to send flying machines from India to Pakistan fitted with payloads (heroin or weapons) by their Pak counterpart and Indian drone pilots would fly them back.
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It was for the first time that two BSF women constables Preeti and Bhagyashree, who were posted in Darya Manzoor area, shot down a Pak flying machine and were given on-the-spot cash rewards by their superiors for motivating them.