The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by our adversaries across the borders to ferry arms/ammunitions, drugs, etc., is a serious threat to the internal security. Comment on the measures being taken to tackle this threat.

1. Large border - difficult to track origin of drone.
2. Variety of drone operating systems ↓ No standardisation ↓ difficult to trace even if drone is found.
3. Increasingly higher operational capability
4. Easy availability → hard to trace who sold it.
5. Anonymity and small size also leads to surveillance challenges ↓ anonymous surveillance.

Ease of operation contributing to border challenges;

1. [Unmanned] - remotely operatable / autonomous

2. difficult to shoot down (due to small size)

3. Small [Radar Cross Section (RCS)] ↓ difficult to detect ↓ easy to operate.

4. Cost asymmetry / asymmetric warfare ↓ very cheap to make a drone, very expensive to deploy anti-drone technology

5. Potential to target victims with accuracy (Eg): USA Predator drones used to target terrorists in Afghanistan, Iran

Suggestions to tackle drone problem in border areas;

1. [Defensive system] ↓ Both "hard kill" + "soft kill" → [Israeli Iron Dome like system.] → electronic jamming → Radio frequency identification → laser based attack

2. [Aerial domain awareness] - using Radar.

3. Awareness

4. New drone policy implementation -