The Border Security Force (BSF) has shot down two drones in as many days in the Punjab sector. While one of the two drones was of Chinese make, the other was assembled in Pakistan. On Sunday, the BSF and Punjab police launched a search operation on the outskirts of Kakkar village, Amritsar district following specific inputs.
During the search operation, the troops recovered a drone from the farming field adjacent to Kakkar village. The recovered drone is an assembled Quadcopter, the BSF said in a statement. “Yet another Pakistani drone was recovered by the joint efforts of BSF and Punjab Police,” it said.
On Friday, at around 9 PM, the BSF intercepted movement of a suspected drone near Pallopati village in Tarn Taran district. As per the laid down drill, BSF troops immediately reacted to intercept the drone, the paramilitary said.
Further during a thorough search of the depth area on Saturday, the BSF troops recovered a drone from the farming field adjacent to Rajoke village in Tarn Taran district. The drone recovered on Saturday was a Quadcopter of DJI Matrice 350 RTK series model.
According to the paramilitary, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones have been used by the Pakistani forces and their cohorts to shore up the terrorist hardware by pushing in arms, ammunition, and drugs.
The Pakistani drones have been mostly sighted in Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, and Rajasthan. The paramilitary forces are also scouring for anti-drone technologies to counter the menace and a host of technologies are undergoing field testing, sources said.
