Indian Army spots hovering drone in Jammu’s Sunjwan military station
Indian Army spots hovering drones in Jammu’s Sunjwan military station. A drone was spotted by security forces at Kunjwani, Sunjwan and Kaluchak area around 2.30 am.
A drone was spotted by security forces at Kunjwani, Sunjwan and Kaluchak area around 2.30 am.
This is the third instance in three days when drones have been spotted hovering over military installations in Jammu. On Monday (June 28)), the Indian Army had said troops fired at two drones which were found spotted over Kaluchak military camp
Srinagar: A day after a drone was used to drop an IED at the Air Force base in Jammu, another drone was spotted near Sunjwan military station in the region.
According to the media reports, a drone was spotted by security forces at Kunjwani, Sunjwan and Kaluchak area around 2.30 am. The drone, however, couldn’t be traced after some time, they added.
This is the third instance in three days when drones have been spotted hovering over military installations in Jammu.
Kunjwani, which is in Jammu city and near the Satwari air force station, is around 6.5 km from Sunjwan and 4.5 km from Kaluchak.
On Monday (June 28), the Indian Army had said troops fired at two drones which were found spotted over Kaluchak military camp.
One Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) was seen flying inside the Army base at 11:45 pm and another at 2:40 am. Alert Army jawans fired at the drones to neutralize them.
THIRD INSTANCE IN 3 DAYS
This is the third instance in three days when drones have been spotted hovering over military installations in Jammu.
On Monday, the Indian Army had said troops fired at two drones which were found spotted over Kaluchak military camp. One Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) was seen flying inside the Army base at 11:45 pm and another at 2:40 am. Alert Army jawans fired at the drones to neutralize them.
“Two quadcopters were spotted on a stretch of the Kaluchak-Purmandal road on the Jammu Pathankot national highway. The suspected objects were flying near the Kalucheck military station,” police told India Today. “Both the drones flew away. A major threat was thwarted by the alertness and proactive approach of troops,” an official said on Monday.
Earlier on Sunday, two bombs were dropped at the IAF station in Jammu airport — the first time Pakistan-based terrorists employed drones to strike vital installations.
The explosions took place around 1.40 am on Sunday within six minutes of each other. The first blast ripped off the roof of a single-storey building at the technical area of the airport manned by the IAF in the Satwari area on the outskirts of the city. The second one was on the ground.
DRONE ATTACK: WHAT IS THE UPDATE ON INVESTIGATIONS?
Investigators are yet to determine the flight path of the drones that dropped two bombs at the IAF station in the early hours of Sunday, which caused minor injuries to two IAF personnel.
Officials said the drones that dropped the explosive material at the technical area of Jammu airport in the outskirts of Jammu were either flown back across the border or to some other destination during the night.
A day after the attack, the IAF station continued to remain out of bounds for all but the probe teams including one from the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which picked up the evidence available on the ground.
Officials said the explosive material dropped by the drones might have been manufactured using a cocktail of chemicals including RDX but a final confirmation was still awaited.
They said an NSG post-blast analysis team has been sent to the IAF station to examine the material. This team will share its findings with the Jammu and Kashmir police and the NIA after completing the task.
J&K Director General of Police Dilbag Singh, meanwhile, termed the incident a “terror act” and said the police and other agencies were working with the IAF officials to unravel the plan behind the attack. The Jammu and Kashmir Police have registered an FIR under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, officials said, indicating that the case is likely to be taken over by the NIA.
According to central security agencies, over 300 drones and unidentified flying objects have been sighted along the sensitive border with Pakistan post the August 5, 2019 abrogation of Article 370 that granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, even as they grappled to find a suitable technology to check these lethal sky-floaters.
Drones cannot be detected by radars deployed at border areas to monitor enemy activity, officials have said, suggesting that a different radar system that can detect drones as small as a bird be installed.
