India, May 14 -- India on Wednesday successfully test fired "Bhargavastra", an indigenous system to counter the threat of swarm drones in the battlefield. The weapon is seen as a substantial leap in war fighting capabilities as drones dominate modern warfare among nations.

The weapon, designed and developed by Solar Defence and Aerospace Limited (SDAL), was tested in a hard-kill mode which uses micro rockets to target incoming drone swarms.

A drone swarm in a battlefield refers to a large group of drones that operate together in a coordinated way, often using artificial intelligence (AI), to make decisions and adapt to changing threat perceptions without needing constant human control. These swarms come from different directions to atta...