New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- At a time when Pakistan is using Chinese drones to smuggle weapons and drugs into India, a top Army official has said that the force was in the process of acquiring and deploying low-level lightweight radars capable of detecting even small drones like the DJI Mavic.

DJI is a Chinese firm whose drones are widely used worldwide by both civilian and military organisations. "The first thing is to look at the capability to detect the smallest drones akin to DJI Mavic. We need a surveillance system for which we are in the process of acquiring radars like the Low-Level Lightweight Radar (LLLR)," said Lt Gen Sumer Ivan D'Cunha, Director General of the Indian Army's Army Air Defence, during an interaction.

"We had bought LR...