‘Indrajaal’: India’s 1st indigenous drone defence dome
- Hyderabad-based technology R&D firm Grene Robotics has designed and developed India’s first indigenous drone defence dome called “Indrajaal”.
- As per the company, the drone defence dome has the capability to autonomously protect an area of 1000-2000 sq km against the aerial threats by assessing and acting on aerial threats such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), loitering munitions, and Low- Radar Cross Section (RCS) targets.
What is Indrajaal?
- It is India's first 100 percent indigenous unified, distributed and wide-area Autonomous Drone Defense Dome.
- Each system is capable of protecting a large area of 1000 to 2000 sq. km against threats from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or UAVs and incoming weapons.
Why is this critical?
- Manual weapons and point based defense systems cannot fight modern warfare driven by AI and Robotics.
- For the first time in India and many times globally, rogue forces have adopted cutting-edge technologies such as UAV's, Smart Swarms etc.
- Jammu Air Base on June 27th was attacked by such technologies to drop explosives next to Mi-17 hangar.
How does this technology work?
- Autonomous defence/Weapon Systems is the third revolution of warfare
- Indrajaal's design principles are based on delivering such autonomy to the defence forces by leveraging a combination of 9-10 modern technologies powered by artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and robotics that is capable of identifying, assessing, deciding, acting and evolving autonomously in real-time.
Salient features of Indrajaal
- Real-time situational awareness.
- Integrated and Intelligent meshed network.
- Integrated all current weapons suite and infrastructure.
- Honeycombed cell structure for seamlessly built.
- Synergic combination of 9-10 technologies.
- 24×7 persistent and autonomous monitoring, action and tracking.