{"id":433372,"date":"2021-09-01T10:01:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T04:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=433372"},"modified":"2021-09-01T11:21:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T05:51:19","slug":"navy-bel-ink-contract-for-first-indigenous-anti-drone-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/navy-bel-ink-contract-for-first-indigenous-anti-drone-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy, BEL ink contract for first indigenous anti-drone system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Navy on Tuesday signed a contract with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) for India\u2019s first locally made naval anti-drone system (NADS) with both \u201chard kill\u201d and \u201csoft kill capabilities\u201d, the ministry of defence said in a statement. The deal comes two months after small drones were used to target the Jammu air force station on June 27, the first-ever offensive use of drones to target an Indian military facility. <\/p>\n<p>BEL will sign similar contracts with the army and the Indian Air Force, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-drone system will give the military both \u201csoft kill\u201d and \u201chard kill\u201d options to tackle the new and fast-emerging aerial threat. The first refers to jamming the hostile drone, while the second involves a laser-based kill system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Navy on Tuesday signed a contract with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) for India\u2019s first locally made naval anti-drone system (NADS) with both \u201chard kill\u201d and \u201csoft kill capabilities\u201d, the ministry of defence said in a statement. The deal comes two months after small drones were used to target the Jammu air force station on June 27, the first-ever offensive use of drones to target an Indian military facility. BEL will sign similar contracts with the army and the Indian Air Force, the statement said. The anti-drone system will give the military both \u201csoft kill\u201d and \u201chard kill\u201d options [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}