NEW DELHI, 07 July 2021, (TON): With drones emerging as a serious security threat in Jammu & Kashmir, the central security establishment is looking to test some advanced global anti-drone systems, including Israel’s laser technology-based solutions, and have them deployed within the next couple of months at vital installations in the Union territory as well as the border with Pakistan.

According to sources, while some of the anti-drone systems, currently available with various agencies like NSG and NTRO, are already being installed and tested at locations like the Jammu airport as well as some select border stretches, the larger plan is to extend the deployment of anti-drone technologies designed to detect, intercept and inactivate drones within a possible 5-6 km range, to vital or key security installations within J&K, apart from using them to secure the border with Pakistan.

A source said that this will help not only tackle drones being sent with payloads like the one used in the recent attack on Jammu IAF base, but also those detected so far carrying weapons, narcotics and even ready-to-use IEDs.”