TOI,NEW DELHI: Getting a hi-tech edge against theMaoists, the CRPF has finally started using 'spy' drones (unmanned aerial vehicles) to pick up ground conversation signals and images of Naxal movement during anti-Naxal operations in the dense forests of Chhattisgarh.
After checking effectiveness of these drones in different terrain in the past two years, the force recently used it in an anti-Naxal operation in the jungles of Narayanpur during which a UAV picked up "real-time imagery" of movement of Naxal cadres and also relayed the conversation among them.
"The conversation and images picked up by the drones were immediately routed to a squad of CoBRA commandos," said a CRPF official, adding that the UAV finally worked with all the devices functioning optimally to give the forces an edge in anti-Naxal operations.
He explained that these UAVs were not 'armed' drones and therefore could not be used as combat air-borne object. These were just 'spy' drones fitted with sophisticated equipment for taking high-resolution images and other gadgets which could pick up signals from distance and send it back to the force's control room.
The paramilitary force has also recently begun providing its strike units with Global Positioning System (GPS) locators which keep alive the line of communication when radio sets and mobile phones go dead deep inside the jungles.
Recently, the CRPF had also successfully tested a mini-UAV 'Netra' in the jungles of Bijapur. It will be exclusively used for reconnaissance of Naxal hideouts in dense forests.
After checking effectiveness of these drones in different terrain in the past two years, the force recently used it in an anti-Naxal operation in the jungles of Narayanpur during which a UAV picked up "real-time imagery" of movement of Naxal cadres and also relayed the conversation among them.
"The conversation and images picked up by the drones were immediately routed to a squad of CoBRA commandos," said a CRPF official, adding that the UAV finally worked with all the devices functioning optimally to give the forces an edge in anti-Naxal operations.
He explained that these UAVs were not 'armed' drones and therefore could not be used as combat air-borne object. These were just 'spy' drones fitted with sophisticated equipment for taking high-resolution images and other gadgets which could pick up signals from distance and send it back to the force's control room.
The paramilitary force has also recently begun providing its strike units with Global Positioning System (GPS) locators which keep alive the line of communication when radio sets and mobile phones go dead deep inside the jungles.
Recently, the CRPF had also successfully tested a mini-UAV 'Netra' in the jungles of Bijapur. It will be exclusively used for reconnaissance of Naxal hideouts in dense forests.
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