CHANDIGARH: In previous few weeks, safety companies manning anti-drone methods alongside Punjab border started noticing a wierd development – drones from Pakistan can be detected and tracked, however would whirr again behind the fence earlier than they could possibly be introduced down. ISI-backed smugglers in Pakistan routinely attempt to ship arms, together with AK-47s and grenades, and medicines, slung beneath drones, throughout the 532km-long border with Punjab. There was a lull within the speedy aftermath of Operation Sindoor, however it picked up after a number of weeks. Detection and interception additionally rose on the Indian facet because the three anti-drone methods (ADS) have been strengthened.Now, these new drones have upped the cat-and-mouse sport. “Know-how adjustments daily. What is occurring now’s that drones coming from Pakistan are largely programmed with a fail-safe mechanism with default settings of back-to-home. After sensing disruption within the sign between the drone and base station throughout our makes an attempt to jam, lock, and neutralise them, the drones are programmed to return to the purpose the place they took off,” mentioned a senior Punjab Police officer, describing it as “a tech problem” in Punjab’s battle in opposition to Pakistan’s ISI-backed smuggling community.The Indian anti-drone methods are as much as the duty as most makes an attempt to smuggle arms and medicines by way of drones get detected, the officer mentioned. “The drones are both introduced down or fly again throughout the border. Both method, it is foiled,” he added. “The detection fee could be very excessive, eight or 10 a day, typically even 15,” he mentioned, including: “We’d like not less than 100 such ADS for wider protection of border areas.”Amid its ongoing ‘Yudh Nashian Virudh’, Punjab authorities deployed 3 vehicle-mounted ADS within the first section, with an official launch by Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann and AAP nationwide convenor Arvind Kejriwal in Tarn Taran on August 9. Punjab plans to deploy 9 such methods at a complete price of round Rs 51 crore.Since deployment of ADS, Tarn Taran police have registered 12 FIRs and arrested as many suspects in Bhikhiwind subdivision alone for receiving contraband by way of drones. The haul consists of 4 pistols, 75 bullets, 5 magazines, over 3kg heroin, 492g ICE, and 506g opium.Bhikhiwind DSP Preetinder Singh mentioned: “ADS has proved very efficient in combating smuggling of medication and weapons from Pakistan by way of drones. Earlier, we needed to depend on sound to trace drones. This expertise provides us precise coordinates of the drone together with velocity, altitude and different parameters.” “As much as a sure vary and distance, jamming can neutralise the drone. However typically, the drone is at such a distance that jamming is ineffective, regardless that it may be detected. Detection has helped us make recoveries and arrests,” the DSP added.