Israeli eye in the sky to track Red rebels

[SpArK]

Israeli eye in the sky to track Red rebels
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After a delay of more than a year, the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) has finally started operating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) over the vast swathes of Maoist dominated territory to carry out surveillance.

According to the original plans the first flight of costly Herons (a brand of UAVs) should have been in June last year but as they were bought from Israel in knocked down condition the process to reassemble them begun in May this year, sources said.

“So far two Herons have completed about 24 hours of flying, the third one is expected to join them in a day or two. Their flight has been satisfactory till now,” a senior home ministry official told DNA.

The Union home secretary RK Singh will undertake a meeting of senior officials of central security agencies and central paramilitary forces to draft the standard operating procedures (SOPs) for optimal utilisation of UAVs.

“As it is a very costly and key project on whose success the security forces strategy would depend a lot on, the SOPs would be framed to take care of collection of data through secured data transfer lines for secrecy, sending real-time pictures and data of possible Maoist assemblage and how the data would be interpreted by the NTRO to give it in an intelligible format to the security forces,” sources said.

The herons would be fitted with night vision to see Maoist movements.

Israeli eye in the sky to track Red rebels - India - DNA

 

[Rafi]

The problem here sparky is the Nax's cadres who are present in the jungles and forests, under the thick canopy - the UAV's will be next to useless, jungle warfare will require troops to patrol, which will make for ambush's. My 2 cents worth.

 

[Night_Raven]

Can the Herons be equipped with IR sensors as well ?

 

[LiberalAtheist]

The problem here sparky is the Nax's cadres who are present in the jungles and forests, under the thick canopy - the UAV's will be next to useless, jungle warfare will require troops to patrol, which will make for ambush's. My 2 cents worth.

the Herons are equipped with sensors that can make them view the thickest covered areas in day or night in any weather besides these Herons are just the tip of the iceberg with Rustom-H and Rustom-C enter the picture it will be a whole different ball game

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Can the Herons be equipped with IR sensors as well ?

they already are

 

[Omega007]

Passive thermal imagers may be useful to a certain extent against these maoist b*s*a*ds hidden in those thick canopies but eventually they need to fit these Herons with high resolution SARs and foliage penetration radars.They can do the job much better than optronics especially in those thick jungles.But no matter what techs we use,in the jungle warfare nothing can replae HUMINT-just my thoughts.
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[guest11]

Wont be very effective as mobilization is too sloppy to cash intel provided by these UAVs. Most CRPF troops still move with non armored trucks and jeeps, thus are prone to IED attacks, so they move slowly and carefully. MPVs are inducted in limited numbers and choppers are only used for VIP duties. Anyway, its still better than nothing.

 

[angeldemon_007]

Wont be very effective as mobilization is too sloppy to cash intel provided by these UAVs.

I always said that. Home ministry needs to purchase 100 Mi17 so as to ensure mobilization. Also we can use turboprop jets even the basic trainer can be equipped with these sensors. It will be cheaper also...

 

[harpoon]

We need predator type UCAVs rather than UAVs, so that if a terrorist leader or conference is detected, it can be taken out at the same time rather than wait for the troops to arrive. Also after a couple of UCAV strikes, the Naxals will look up the sky before mounting any operation on their own and will think twice before leaving their jungle hideouts.


Along with UCAVs we also need specially trained Long Range Reconissance Patrol parties who will specialize in taking out Naxal leaders. Naxals are a top heavy organization. Without the leaders the foot soldiers mainly tribals will just wither away.

 

[guest11]

I always said that. Home ministry needs to purchase 100 Mi17 so as to ensure mobilization. Also we can use turboprop jets even the basic trainer can be equipped with these sensors. It will be cheaper also...

What Home ministry needs is a small but well trained and equipped LRRP unit to effectively target the leadership. Killing a bunch of teenagers who have nothing better to do will hardly change a thing. 100 Mi 17s are way too costly and wont be needed anyway as fighting insurgency needs a different approach than fighting a conventional war with an air assault brigade. Choppers should only be needed for providing supplies and exfiltration.

As far as the COBRA is concerned, it is too large, not so well equipped and abysmally trained. If giving them a boonie hat and Tavor makes this unit an elite one then the folks higher up don't even know what elite means.