Bengaluru: An eye in the sky for Army in border areas

Bengaluru: In order to thwart attacks by terrorists such as the one in Pulwama on Thursday, Bengaluru-based Alpha Design Technologies Ltd (ADTL) has offered ‘Skylark’ and ‘SkyStriker’ Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to the Indian armed forces, and both will be on display at Aero India 2019 commencing here on February 20.

‘Skylark’, designed to operate at day and night, and peer across the border to provide advance information to the field commander of forward brigades on movement of troops or weapons or even vehicles of militants, is undergoing trials by the armed forces somewhere in Ladakh region.