IED-loaded drone shot down in J&K

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IED-loaded drone shot down in J&K
IED-loaded drone shot down in J&K

 

Jammu

The drone shot down around six kilometres inside the Indian border in the Kanachak area of Jammu and Kashmir has been identified as a Hexacopter.

Addressing a press conference in Jammu, Additional Director General of Police Jammu zone Mukesh Singh said that police shot down a hexa-copter carrying a payload of 5 kg IED material in Akhnoor area of Jammu region the threads of which were same as that of the ones used for dropping payloads at Air Force Station Jammu.

 Drone shot down in Kanachak, Jammu.

Additional Director General Mukesh Singh said that police had received a specific input that Jaish-e-Muhammad was planning to drop a payload through a drone near Akhnoor. “At around 1 am, police shot down the drone when it went down to drop the payload that was around 5 Kg IED material,” Singh said as per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO).

He said that the serial number of the flight controller used in the drone is just one digit different from the one drone that was earlier shot down at Aknoor some time ago. “The IED material was packed and it was almost a ready-made IED just to be triggered by connecting a few wires. Preliminary analysis suggested that it was a hexa-copter with six wings fitted with a flight controller and a GPS,” the ADGP said.

Earlier today, the Jammu and Kashmir Police informed that a drone was shot down in the Kanachak area and explosive material was recovered.

On Wednesday, a suspected drone was spotted in the Satwari area, while earlier on July 16, a drone that was seen operating around the Jammu Air Base was picked up by the radars of the anti-drone system deployed by the National Security Guard (NSG) there.

Explosive material recovered from drone.

The NSG had deployed an anti-drone system in the city after a drone attack took place on the Jammu air base last month.

The Air Force had also taken measures to prevent any such attack in Jammu and other important airbases across the country. It has also taken strict measures to address threats from small drones.

After the Jammu attack, the number of drone sightings has gone up drastically and there have been several instances where the Army and Border Security Forces (BSF) troops at the border have fired at them.