What are HARPY drones used by Indian Army to neutralize Lahore’s air defense system? They are designed to attack…
India-Pakistan war: Amid heightened tensions after Operation Sindoor, that threaten to boil over into a full-blown India-Pakistan, Indian armed forces have used advanced HARPY drones to disable air defence systems in the enemy country. According to reports, Harpy drones were used to successfully neutralize Air Defence system at Lahore.
What are HARPY drones?
Developed by srael Aerospace Industries, the IAI Harpy, or Harpy drone, as its is commonly called, is a loitering munition missile, designed to attack enemy radar systems and is optimised for the suppression of enemy air defences (SEAD) role. The Harpy drones carry a high-explosive warhead, and are equipped with an Anti-Radiation (AR) seeker, enabling these machines to autonomously seek and strike emitting, high-value targets.
The Harpy operates in deep strike missions lasting up to 9 hours, day and night, in all weather conditions, and in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)-denied or contested battlefields. These drones are equipped to hunt targets in a designated area, locate and identify their frequency, and autonomously pursue a strike from any direction, at shallow or steep dive profiles.
Pakistan targets military sites, attempts foiled
Meanwhile, Pakistan attempted to engage a number of military targets across Northern and Western India on the night of May 7, barely 24 hours after India conducted Operation Sindoor– a series of deadly, precision missile strikes on as many as nine terror sites deep inside Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
According to an official release issued by the Press Information Bureau (PIB), Pakistan tried to engage military targets in several places across Northern and Western India, including Awantipura, Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot, Amritsar, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Adampur, Bhatinda, Chandigarh, Nal, Phalodi, Uttarlai, and Bhuj, using drones and missiles.
However, all these attempts were successfully foiled by the Integrated Counter UAS Grid and Air Defence systems, officials said, adding that the debris of downed Pakistani munitions is now being recovered from a number of locations that prove the attack were carried out by the enemy country.
“Indian Air Force S-400 Sudarshan Chakra air defence missile systems were fired last night against targets moving towards India. The targets were successfully neutralised in the operation,” ANI quoted experts as saying.
On Thursday morning, Indian Armed Forces targeted Air Defence Radars and systems at a number of locations in Pakistan, and neutralised an Air Defence system at Lahore using Harpy drones, ANI reported.
Operation Sindoor- Pahalgam avenged
The Indian Armed Forces launched Operation Sindoor, a series of deadly, precision missile strikes on terror infrastructures deep inside Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) during the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, raising the fears of a full-blown India-Pakistan war as Islamabad has vowed to issue a strong response to “India’s aggression”.
The missile strikes on terror camps were carried out to avenge last month’s heinous Pahalgam terror attack in which terrorists gunned down 26 civilians, mostly Indian Hindu tourists in Kashmir valley.
In a press briefing in national capital New Delhi hours after the military strikes, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, Colonel Sofiya Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh revealed the details and objectives of Operation Sindoor. They said that a total of nine terror camps of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), and Hizbul Mujahideen, were targeted by Indian forces, four of which are in mainland Pakistan while the remaining in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Citing sources, a report by news agency ANI said that over 100 terrorists were neutralized in Operation Sindoor, which remains an ongoing operation.
(With ANI inputs)
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