Pakistan Successfully The usage of Drones For Smuggling, Surveillance: BSF Leader
Pakistan is looking for to enhance its counter drone capacity, BSF Leader stated. (Document)
Bengaluru:
Pakistan may be very successfully the usage of drones for surveillance and smuggling fingers, explosives and narcotics around the border, BSF Director Basic Rakesh Asthana stated on Wednesday.
“In 2019, there have been 167 recorded sightings of drones at the Western entrance (with Pakistan). In 2020, there have been 77 sightings of drones in this entrance,” he stated at a seminar organised via trade frame FICCI at Aero India 2021 exhibition.
There were circumstances of losing of fingers, ammunition, explosives and narcotics throughout the drones, in particular in Punjab and Jammu sectors, he discussed.
“Pakistan may be very successfully the usage of its drone era for no longer handiest smuggling actions, but additionally for surveillance functions,” Asthana stated.
“As according to intelligence inputs, the Pakistan Military is searching for mini or small UAVs which will keep for a number of hours within the air to watch the borders with a preferable vary of 150 kms,” he added.
The Border Safety Pressure (BSF) leader additionally stated that the neighbouring country is the usage of drones from China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Germany and Italy.
Along with this, Pakistan is looking for to enhance its counter drone capacity, he added.
