Saudi Aramco oil refinery drone strikes a wake up call for India: Just matter of time before jihadis go high-tech
5 years, 3 months ago

Saudi Aramco oil refinery drone strikes a wake up call for India: Just matter of time before jihadis go high-tech

Firstpost  

For India, the Saudi attacks should be a wake up call: the next strike on Indian military complexes in Kashmir, or the next 26/11, could involve DIY-drones using components available off the shelf. Last week’s audacious assaults on the Abqaiq and Khurais oil facilities in eastern Saudi Arabia, which have halved the country’s production, or about 5 percent of global output, illustrate just how far the technology has evolved in the 170 years since the siege of Venice. In a 2016 article, former United States air force officer Marc Jacobsen described how his humanitarian organisation, Uplift, which used drones to deliver humanitarian aid through contested airspace in Syria. Last year, the United Nations reported Yemen’s Houthi insurgents had developed a new kind of drone, powered by the Chinese-made DLE 170 or the German-made 3W110i B2 model-aircraft engines, capable of ranges of up to 1,500 kilometres and speeds of up to 250kmph.

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India’s quest for aatmanirbharta in drones
11 months, 2 weeks ago

India’s quest for aatmanirbharta in drones

Hindustan Times  

The word “drone” refers primarily to unmanned aircraft guided by remote control or onboard computers. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the Centre will promote ‘Kisan Drones‘ to help farmers assess crops, digitise land records as well as spray insecticides and nutrients, in India, on Saturday, February 05, 2022. In June 2021, drones were used by Pakistan to carry out …

Terror drones from Pakistan demand a comprehensive national security response
1 year, 9 months ago

Terror drones from Pakistan demand a comprehensive national security response

Firstpost  

The skies over India are becoming battlegrounds for a new kind of threat: terror drones. Over the past three weeks, Indian security forces stationed along India’s international border states, particularly Punjab, Rajasthan, and Jammu and Kashmir, have intercepted more than a dozen terror drones launched from Pakistan. With the threat of terror drones looming large, India needs to urgently evolve …

Indian among 12 injured by falling debris as Saudi blows up drone fired by Yemeni rebels
2 years, 11 months ago

Indian among 12 injured by falling debris as Saudi blows up drone fired by Yemeni rebels

India Today  

An Indian national was among 12 civilians who were injured on Thursday by falling debris when Saudi Arabia’s Army destroyed a drone fired by Yemen’s rebels targeting an international airport, state media reported. The coalition’s spokesman General Turki Al-Malki said: “Saudi Air Defences thwarted an attempt to deliberately and systematically target travelling civilians and staff at Abha International Airport by …

Manish Tewari | India needs to gear up for battle in world of drones
3 years ago

Manish Tewari | India needs to gear up for battle in world of drones

Deccan Chronicle  

Remote-controlled soldier boys, deadly killing machines which are armed to the teeth. Turkish Byraktar TB2 have destroyed hundreds of Syrian armoured vehicles and the Azerbaijani forces have used the Israeli Kamikaze drones against Armenian military in the Nagarno Karabakh conflict. The use of drones to mount localised and virtually autonomous terrorist attacks marks the commencement of a significant new security …

Anti-drone plan: How India is strengthening its unmanned warfare power
3 years, 4 months ago

Anti-drone plan: How India is strengthening its unmanned warfare power

India Today  

The drone attack on the Jammu air force station on June 27 was a rude wake-up call for India to enhance its anti-drone capabilities. The latest among the recent contracts is the Indian Air Force placing an order worth Rs 155 crore for anti-drone platforms or counter-unmanned aircraft systems. The IAF’s contract comes soon after the Indian Navy inked an …

Drone Terror Attack on Jammu Airport: A Deadly and Dangerous Dare
3 years, 6 months ago

Drone Terror Attack on Jammu Airport: A Deadly and Dangerous Dare

News 18  

The only thing surprising about the drone attack on the Jammu Air Force Station in the wee hours of June 27 was that some people were surprised that such an attack took place. Three days after the Jammu attack, investigators are still not sure whether the drone was a crude, commercially available version that had been rigged to drop an …

High time international community urged Pak to take ‘verifiable’ action against terror outfits: India at UN
3 years, 6 months ago

High time international community urged Pak to take ‘verifiable’ action against terror outfits: India at UN

India TV News  

India has told the UN General Assembly that it is high time the international community called on Pakistan to take "effective and irreversible" actions against terror outfits operating on its soil, asserting that Islamabad should not take the "high road of morality" which is only laden with mines of falsehood. The possibility of the use of weaponized drones for terrorist …

Drones favoured tool of Pakistan-based terror outfits
3 years, 6 months ago

Drones favoured tool of Pakistan-based terror outfits

The Hindu  

Drones were used for the first time to drop explosive devices, triggering blasts inside the Air Force Station’s technical area in Jammu in the early hours of Sunday. The official said the incident could be an extension of the trend Pakistan-based syndicates using drones to smuggle drugs and weapons into the Indian side, apart from conducting aerial surveillance. In January …

Day of the drone: Saudi oil attacks signal the future of warfare
5 years, 3 months ago

Day of the drone: Saudi oil attacks signal the future of warfare

India Today  

One of 21st century's most significant military events unfolded in eastern Saudi Arabia, bordering the Persian Gulf, in the early hours of September 14. Over a dozen drones launched by the Houthis, an Iran-backed Yemeni rebel group, slammed into the giant onion-shaped spheroids used to process crude oil in Abqaiq, the world's largest crude oil processing facility, and Khurais, the …

Drones are levelling the playing field in the asymmetrical arms race — and superpowers are worried
5 years, 3 months ago

Drones are levelling the playing field in the asymmetrical arms race — and superpowers are worried

ABC  

The potential use of drones to cripple as much as half of Saudi national oil production this week highlights a growing threat in modern-day conflict. Necessity is the mother of invention, and the growth of drone use by non-state actors represents the latest innovation in a never-ending arms race against technologically superior foes. Autonomous suicide drones the latest threat facing …

Firstpost Editor's Picks: Saudi drone strikes, Trump at Modi event, Section 375 review; today's must-read stories
5 years, 3 months ago

Firstpost Editor's Picks: Saudi drone strikes, Trump at Modi event, Section 375 review; today's must-read stories

Firstpost  

Saudi Aramco oil refinery drone strikes a wake up call for India: Just matter of time before jihadis go high-tech For India, the Saudi attacks should be a wake-up call: the next strike on Indian military complexes in Kashmir, or the next 26/11, could involve DIY-drones using components available off the shelf. Donald Trump’s drop-in at ‘Howdy, Modi’ event a …

Explained: Saudi Aramco oil facility attacked; what makes drone attacks so dangerous
5 years, 3 months ago

Explained: Saudi Aramco oil facility attacked; what makes drone attacks so dangerous

India Today  

In the early hours of September 14, Saudi Arabia suffered the deadliest attack on its oil facilities in recent times when a small army of drones attacked two major oil plants, destroying nearly 50 per cent of the country's global supply of crude. The drone attacks have crippled Saudi Arabia's oil facilities and its immediate fallout was seen in the …

Aramco drone strikes: Saudi Arabia assures India of no oil supply shortage, says oil ministry
5 years, 3 months ago

Aramco drone strikes: Saudi Arabia assures India of no oil supply shortage, says oil ministry

Firstpost  

India, the world’s third-largest oil consumer, will not be hit by a reduction in production at its No. 2 supplier Saudi Arabia, the Oil Ministry said on Monday New Delhi: India, the world’s third-largest oil consumer, will not be hit by a reduction in production at its No. A massive drone strike on the world’s largest crude-processing facility operated by …

Saudi Arabia: Drone attacks knocked out half its oil supply
5 years, 3 months ago

Saudi Arabia: Drone attacks knocked out half its oil supply

Associated Press  

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched drone attacks on the world’s largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia and a major oil field Saturday, sparking huge fires and halting about half of the supplies from the world’s largest exporter of oil. The attacks resulted in “the temporary suspension of production operations” at the Abqaiq oil processing facility …

Drone attacks strike major Saudi Aramco facility, oilfield
5 years, 3 months ago

Drone attacks strike major Saudi Aramco facility, oilfield

India Today  

Drone attacks on two Saudi Aramco factories in Abqaiq and Khurais provinces on Saturday sparked fires that the state oil company brought under control, the Saudi interior ministry spokesman said without identifying the source of the drones. Abqaiq, 60 km southwest of Dhahran in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, contains the world's largest oil processing plant. Iran-aligned Houthi fighters in Yemen …

Drone attack by Yemen rebels sparks fire in Saudi oil field
5 years, 4 months ago

Drone attack by Yemen rebels sparks fire in Saudi oil field

Al Jazeera  

Energy giant Saudi Aramco says attack caused ‘limited fire’ but no disruption or injuries. A drone attack claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has sparked a fire in a remote Saudi oil and gas field but has caused no casualties or disruption to production, state-owned energy company Saudi Aramco said. “Saudi Aramco’s response team controlled a limited fire this morning at …

Saudi air defence intercepts five Houthi drones: SPA
5 years, 6 months ago

Saudi air defence intercepts five Houthi drones: SPA

Al Jazeera  

The drone attack comes days after a missile strike on Abha airport injured 26 amid escalating tension in the region. Saudi Arabia says its air defence forces intercepted five drones launched by Yemen’s Houthis at Abha airport and the city of Khamis Mushait in the latest escalation of conflict in the region. The Iran-aligned Houthi movement earlier said that it …

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