Hyderabad: Grene Robotics, a Hyderabad based company has developed an indigenous autonomous drone defence dome called Indrajaal. It is India's first 100 percent indigenous unified, distributed and wide-area Autonomous Drone Defense Dome. Each system is capable of protecting a large area of 1000 to 2000 sq. km against threats from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or UAVs and incoming weapons.
Speaking to ETV Bharat, Defence CEO of Grene Robotics, MVN Sai said that "Indrajaal is a paradigm shift in the drone warfare system including Low RCS threat warfare".
Low RCS includes ammunitions, rockets as well as drones fired from the enemy territory to target the other side.
The development of Indrajaal is gaining importance in the backdrop of the recent attack by suspected drones on the Indian Air Force base at Jammu.
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"Drones, in the recent times, are emerging as the new form of warfare by the enemy side and if a nation has to be prepared for this new weapon of war, then the strata of air defence has to be looked at, separately," he added. The existing air defence system can not be mixed and merged to counter-attack the Low RCS attacks, he further said.
As drone threats are unconventional, the counter-attack should also be unconventional, for which a separate set of weapons, a separate set of sensors and separate tactics are required, he added.
He also said that manual weapons and point-based defence systems can't fight modern warfare, which is driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics and for which the development of Indrajaal was critical.
As drones are now commercialised and easily available for common use, they pose a new challenge on the security front.
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Space, where drones fly and work, is not regulated by any authority and radars are mostly unable to detect them. For this, the area has to be fortified against such movements and Indrajaal is capable of countering all such threats over a large area.
