Delhi Police to Get a Squadron of Night-Vision Enabled DRDO Netra Surveillance & Reconnaissance UAVs

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Delhi Cops May Get a Squadron of Night-Vision Spy Drones

Netra, at the exhibition of 100th Indian Science Congress in Kolkata.​

Drones with night vision cameras may soon patrol the streets of India’s capital city. The Delhi police plan to launch an ambitious drone-based surveillance project as early as next month, according to the Times of India.

Citing an unnamed source at the police department, the paper reports that the each drone will fly about 200 feet above the ground and cover an area of three to four kilometers. Quick Response Teams, or QRT, will monitor the video streams in real-time, the paper says.

The move follows a high profile accusation that an Uber driver raped a woman in Delhi last week. But the safety of women in India has been a matter of concern for quite some time, and received international attention thanks to mass protests following the gang-rape of a 23-year-old women in Delhi in 2012.

Still, the city’s drone surveillance program will likely raise major privacy concerns, not to mention questions about the safety of having large numbers of drones circling the skies.

The police will begin by deploying drones in the north district area, the same part of town that the Uber incident occurred occurred, the Times reports. “With this project, north Delhi will become the first district with complete camera surveillance in Delhi,” the source told the paper. “This would be achieved with the combined range of with CCTVs and drones.”

If successful in Delhi, the project could be expanded to other cities the paper’s source says. But for now, the police department is still in the process of procuring the equipment.

Source:- Delhi Cops May Get a Squadron of Night-Vision Spy Drones | WIRED

General characteristics of DRDO Netra UAV >>

• Payload: High resolution Night-Vision enabled CCD camera (Thermal camera)
• Length: 90 cm (2.95 ft)
• Rotor diameter: 90 cm (2.95 ft)
• Empty weight: 1.5 Kg (3.3 lbs)
• Powerplant: 4 × External swappable Li-Po batteries.

Performance >>

• Maximum speed: 30 km/hr
• Range: 2500 m (8200 ft)
• Service ceiling: 300 m (985 ft)

DRDO Netra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Abingdonboy]

Delhi Cops May Get a Squadron of Night-Vision Spy Drones

Netra, at the exhibition of 100th Indian Science Congress in Kolkata.​

Drones with night vision cameras may soon patrol the streets of India’s capital city. The Delhi police plan to launch an ambitious drone-based surveillance project as early as next month, according to the Times of India.

Citing an unnamed source at the police department, the paper reports that the each drone will fly about 200 feet above the ground and cover an area of three to four kilometers. Quick Response Teams, or QRT, will monitor the video streams in real-time, the paper says.

The move follows a high profile accusation that an Uber driver raped a woman in Delhi last week. But the safety of women in India has been a matter of concern for quite some time, and received international attention thanks to mass protests following the gang-rape of a 23-year-old women in Delhi in 2012.

Still, the city’s drone surveillance program will likely raise major privacy concerns, not to mention questions about the safety of having large numbers of drones circling the skies.

The police will begin by deploying drones in the north district area, the same part of town that the Uber incident occurred occurred, the Times reports. “With this project, north Delhi will become the first district with complete camera surveillance in Delhi,” the source told the paper. “This would be achieved with the combined range of with CCTVs and drones.”

If successful in Delhi, the project could be expanded to other cities the paper’s source says. But for now, the police department is still in the process of procuring the equipment.

Source:- Delhi Cops May Get a Squadron of Night-Vision Spy Drones | WIRED

General characteristics of DRDO Netra UAV >>

• Payload: High resolution Night-Vision enabled CCD camera (Thermal camera)
• Length: 90 cm (2.95 ft)
• Rotor diameter: 90 cm (2.95 ft)
• Empty weight: 1.5 Kg (3.3 lbs)
• Powerplant: 4 × External swappable Li-Po batteries.

Performance >>

• Maximum speed: 30 km/hr
• Range: 2500 m (8200 ft)
• Service ceiling: 300 m (985 ft)

DRDO Netra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mumbai and all other large and at risk cities needs to have this capability ASAP.

 

[Juggernautjatt]

very good system for Police to analyze crowd during protests or other gatherings.

 

[Screambowl]

we fly all these FPV'S here as toys

 

[Rohit Patel]

The cost of this UAV ranges from 20-55 lac! That's a lot of money to be honest. My friend works for the GoI in the Department of Science and Technology (DST). He's in the UAV department (mainly into fixed wings) for mapping projects. Lately, I met him and we were having discussions on various Indian UAVs. I asked him what he thought about Netra and the first thing he said was that it's exorbitantly expensive and further added that they were developing a similarly specd UAV for less than 5 lac! (inclusive of everything right from thermal cameras to a carbon fibre structure). And frankly speaking all the materials used in the UAVs are off the shelf electronics/electrical. You just need to design a structure, in many cases even that can be bought.

we fly all these FPV'S here as toys

Agree with you...My friend told that it's actually a serious business in Germany and his immediate boss travels to Stuttgart frequently with regards of this.

 

[Screambowl]

Agree with you...My friend told that it's actually a serious business in Germany and his immediate boss travels to Stuttgart frequently with regards of this.

yeah there is one small runway also for them

 

[ranjeet]

Without bringing in Police reforms such fancy tools would be like putting lipstick on monkey's @ss.

 

[Echo_419]

Without bringing in Police reforms such fancy tools would be like putting lipstick on monkey's @ss.

Kya baat hai
Agreed with you 100%