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Indrajaal - India's air defense dome
General Studies- III (Achievements of Indians in Science & Technology)
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Grene Robotics, a Hyderabad based company has developed an indigenous autonomous drone defence dome called Indrajaal.
- Indrajaal is an autonomous defence weapon system that uses technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity and robotics to identify and counter threats.
- 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.
- Indrajaal is a paradigm shift in the drone warfare system including Low Radar cross-section (RCS) threat warfare.
Low Radar cross-section (RCS): Low RCS includes ammunitions, rockets as well as drones fired from the enemy territory to target the other side.
Need for:
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 have to be looked at, separately.
- 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.
- 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.
Significance:
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.
Source: The Hindu Business Line
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