Small-Size, Stealth Make Drones Lethal Threat For Strategic Installations: Officials

Pakistan-based terrorists used drones to drop two bombs at the Indian Air Force (IAF) station in Jammu's Satwari area leading to minor damage to a building and injuring two airmen in the darkness of the night.

The capability of drones to evade radar, wreak devastation at strategic installations and transport weapons to terrorists has been a continuous concern for the country's security establishment, and in a maiden incident, these unmanned vehicles were used to strike an IAF base in Jammu on Sunday, officials said. Pakistan-based terrorists used drones to drop two bombs at the Indian Air Force (IAF) station in Jammu's Satwari area leading to minor damage to a building and injuring two airmen in the darkness of the night. The defence and internal security matrix of the country has been talking about threats posed by small and remote-controlled unmanned vehicles for the last two to three years with occasional incidents of Pakistan-sponsored armed drones being neutralised by the Border Security Force (BSF), the Punjab Police and other agencies along the India-Pakistan border. A clutch of ministries and departments like that of home, civil aviation, Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS), the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and the IAF have been working on plans and technologies to check and combat such attacks at sensitive civil airports and other facilities.