Homegrown BEL System to Ring Death Knell for Rogue Drones

Rogue unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could find its nemesis in homegrown Drone Guard System (DGS) being developed by Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL).

The DGS was first unveiled during the DefExpo held in Chennai in 2018 and later during Aero India held in Bengaluru 2019.

Speaking to Onmanorama on Saturday, on the sidelines of the Annual BEL press conference here, Mahesh V, Director (Design and Development) said any intruding drones could be shot down with the help of DGS.

“Rogue drones coming towards any vital installations can be brought down with our system. We could also employ a soft-kill and bring the intruding drone to a specified place,” Mahesh said.

An electro-optic sensor, a communication system for interrogation jamming and a radar are part of the DGS, mainly developed to protect vital installations.

“We developed the DGS with our own resources and made two versions. A demonstration was shown to the Indian Army. The user wants some more additions and we are working on the same,” Mahesh said.

DGS is a portable unit with FMCW (frequency modulated continuous wave) radar and a communication jammer capable of taking on both uplink and downlink networks. It has an electro optic sensor onboard aiding the missions.

BEL says they are now working on GPS-spoofing for DGS, so as to ‘confuse’ the intruder drone and bring it to a particular area.

The Central Research Laboratories of BEL have been given enough finds to work on areas including artificial intelligence, robotics, data science and homeland security.

“We are offering the users a best system in the form of DGS that can detect, track and neutralise any drones invading into critical assets. The system can also be mounted on a vehicle,” Mahesh added.

Source: MO

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