New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- In a bold step to meet the fast-emerging threat of enemy drones on the contemporary battlefield, the Indian Army has initiated the acquisition of 'Saksham, its first indigenous Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Grid, capable of providing real-time detection, tracking and neutralization of enemy drones over an increased air-land combat space.
Triggered by lessons from Operation Sindoor, in which wayward drones breached beyond conventional ground-based defences, the Army has reconstituted its warfighting space, moving from the Tactical Battle Area (TBA) to the far broader Tactical Battlefield Space (TBS), reaching up to 3,000 metres into the 'Air Littoral'.
Designed and developed by BEL, the system incorporates AI-dr...