Indian Army is training dogs and Kites to Identify Foreign Drones: Indian Army is training dogs and Kites (Cheel), to identify and destroy the drones. Hostile elements from Pakistan are sending drugs, arms, and ammunition to India through drones which are creating a security problem for India. On November 24, 2022, Jammu and Kashmir police recovered a consignment of weapons and Indian currency dropped by a Pakistani drone in Jammu’s Samba district.
December 2022 Current Affairs Quiz
Indian Army is training dogs and Kites to Identify Foreign Drones – Key Points
- The dogs alert the Amry after hearing the noise of the drones and the kite is used to identify the location of the drones.
- The kite named “Arjun” was trained and demonstrated during the ongoing 18th edition of the Indo-US Joint training exercise “Yudh Abhyas 22” in Auli.
- The 18th edition of the Indo-US Joint Training Exercise “Yudh Abhyas 22” was held from October 14th to October 31st, 2022 in Auli, Uttarakhand.
- Earlier this month, BSF Director General Pankaj Kumar Singh informed that instances of drones bringing drugs, arms, and ammunition along the Punjab and Jammu borders from across Pakistan have doubled in 2022.
- He also informed that BSF has set up a state-of-the-art laboratory in Delhi to study drone forensics and the results have been encouraging. In 2020, the BSF detected over 79 drone flights near the India-Pakistan international border.
