Foreign secretary Vikram Misri during a press briefing regarding “Operation Sindoor” at National Media Centre in New Delhi on May 7, 2025.
| Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar
The loitering munitions used by the Indian armed forces to strike at terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on Wednesday (May 7, 2025) were manufactured in Bengaluru. These loitering munitions are said to have had a huge impact in destroying the targets.
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These loitering munitions, which are also known as suicide or Kamikaze drones, are developed by a Bengaluru-based private company which has a joint venture with an Israel-based military technology company.
The loitering munition is a fully autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System (UAS) that can locate, acquire, and strike operator-designated targets with a warhead installed inside the fuselage, enabling high-precision performance.
A few years ago at Aero India, the two companies signed an agreement to establish a working relationship and to cooperate phased production of the UAS in India.
The Israeli company provided transfer of technology through a follow-up agreement. Later that year, the Indian Army signed a contract with the Bengaluru-based company for procuring more than 100 of these drones.
This was the first time the Indian armed forces used this technology in large numbers in a military operation to target terrorist camps across the border.
Published – May 08, 2025 01:08 am IST
