Indian Air Force claims to shoot down Pakistani surveillance drone in Rajasthan’s Bikaner
NEW DELHI: A Pakistani surveillance drone was shot down by a Sukhoi-30MKI of the Air Force in Rajasthan’s Bikaner on Monday, sources said. This was the second drone to be downed by the IAF in a week, the first was taken out over the Kutch region of Gujarat by an Israeli-designed SPYDER surface-to-air missile system on February 26, according to Indian TV reports.
The Sukhoi-30MKI reportedly scored the kill using an air-to-air missile after the intruding drone was detected by Indian radars.
Drones are commonly used at border areas by the armed forces of both India and Pakistan to spy on each other as they are lightweight, easy to operate and relatively inexpensive.
The Air Force’s latest action comes amid simmering tension between the two neighbours after a terror attack in Pulwama led to India responding with an air strike inside Pakistan, and subsequent skirmish between the air forces of India and Pakistan – the first since the 1971 war.
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