India built battlefield Drones and UAVs for China border
The Turkish UAV Bayraktar gave Azerbaijan the victory over Armenia. Later same was true in Syrian war. Now in the Ukraine war in the beginning, the Russian forces were held up or destroyed by the same Turkish drone. Honestly, like it or not, but tanks, fighters and the importance of artillery will be reduced with drones/UAV. Future battles will be fought with these and fully autonomous flying objects equipped with artificial intelligence, with the ground controller sitting hundreds of kilometers away and steering them.
Finally, when the push came to shove, then the rush began in India to incorporate drones. Indian built Tapas-1 drone was tested 15 years, but then put on the back burner in favor of imports. Now the Indian armed forces have a large number of UAVs mainly of Israeli-origin, for real-time reconnaissance and precision-targeting. The air force also has Israeli Harop "killer" or Kamikaze drones that act like cruise missiles by detonating in enemy targets and radars. The Tapas-2 drone built in India was handed over to the Indian Army in August 2022 for monitoring activities throughout the LAC. This system was developed with all-Indigenous technologies. A total of 76 Tapas drones will be inducted into the armed forces—the Army, 60; the Air Force, 12; and the Navy, four in next few years.
In January last year, the Army sanctioned a $20 million contract to Mumbai-based private drone manufacturer IdeaForge to source an undisclosed number of its vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) UAV, called 'Switch'. Also, the Indian Army has procured Swarm Drones from two Indian start-up companies. In addition, the Indian Army has also initiated a Make-II case, Autonomous Surveillance and Armed Drone Swarm (A-SADS) which includes a number of improvements and good for the High Altitude surveillance.
In a short time, if the deal passes through then India will own American MQ-9 drones of high quality, long endurance and equipped with missiles. That will put India a league ahead of its neighbors.
China until now had a drone advantage over India. But very shortly that advantage will be no more, although the Global Times has reported that China promoted a brand-new rival drone to the American Switchblade, but nothing of Chinese origin is reliable.
Pakistan will certainly acquire well-tried Bayraktar -TB2 of Turkey. But it’s excessive use in Ukraine has given away its weaknesses. Moreover, it is short duration, short load, but highly accurate targeting drone, but it is no sweat in front of American and Israeli hardware.
Hence, in there years, India will be ahead in military drones.