Israeli Heron Mark-II drones to help India track border with China

Israeli Drones Heron Mark-II will help India monitor the border with China. The Indian Air Force received the first reconnaissance drones leased from Israel. This is reported by the Indian news agency ANI, citing military sources.

According to the publication, the Indian Air Force received two Heron-type drones of an improved design out of four leased from Israel. Two more similar drones should arrive shortly.

It is noted that these drones have already been sent to the border area with China, they will be deployed in Ladakh to track the demarcation line between India and China, passing in this mountainous area. As emphasized in the Indian military department, the resulting drones have improved characteristics and are more resistant to interference, in contrast to the earlier Heron UAVs in service with the Indian army.

The publication does not disclose which Heron-type drones are in question, but it was previously stated that India in mid-January this year entered into a contract with Israel for a three-year lease of Israeli reconnaissance medium-range Heron Mark-II drones for deployment on the border with China. The agreement provided for the delivery of four drones, with the first two to arrive in the summer, and two more by the end of the year. However, delivery times have been shifted due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Indian Ministry of Defense, commenting on the lease agreement for the Israeli drones, explained that the choice of the Heron Mark-II UAV was made based on their characteristics.

With their long-range radars and sensors, anti-jamming ability and the ability to reach heights of over 10 meters, the Heron Mark-II will be able to collect all kinds of intelligence through the line of de facto control in Ladakh without ever getting close to it.

- said in the Indian military department.

Comments

[Andrey R2R]

Not all NATO countries have the same number of Heron drones as India: 50 + rent

[Maz]

Sign: Where Israel and the United States supply high-tech weapons - expect war, human sacrifices and destruction ...

[Andrey R2R]

I agree with a colleague Australia, Germany, Canada used Heron exclusively in Afghanistan and only on a leasehold basis (cunning). + Azerbaijan, Morocco, Singapore, Brazil, Indonesia, Ecuador - someone is watching the terrorist rebels, someone is watching the drug traffic

[Aaron Zawi]

Quote: Maz

Sign: Where Israel and the United States supply high-tech weapons - expect war, human sacrifices and destruction ...

Why then do you finance Israel?

[indy424]

on the contrary, he gets money from bloody incomes. but money doesn't smell

[Krasnodar]

Quote: Maz

Sign: Where Israel and the United States supply high-tech weapons - expect war, human sacrifices and destruction ...

Leave this country urgently! Behind me!

[Cottodraton]

By the way, I wonder why you left the "promised land"?

[Krasnodar]

Quote: Cottodraton

By the way, I wonder why you left the "promised land"?

Three reasons:
1) I have worked with Russia since the 2016s, after two crisis years in XNUMX I had to start working “on the spot”, and living here is cheaper.
2) Tired of the East - mentality, culture, manner of communication;
3) Personal.

[Cottodraton]

East? So Jews are part of the Western world. Or is it not so simple?

[Krasnodar]

Not only Jews live in Israel, not all Jews are carriers of Western / Eastern European culture, etc.

[Vitaly gusin]

Quote: Maz

human sacrifices and destruction ...

But you’re alive and you don’t want to go back to where neither the United States nor Israel is supplying weapons.
And you get all social services from taxes on the sale of these weapons.
DOUBLE you NOT our.

[Jacket in stock]

Well, that's right, don't fly DLRO planes.

On the Internet, they write that ours also began in Syria with Orions to cover the columns on the march.
They also showed on TV that our Novosibirsk special forces unit received a staff unit as a UAV operator, and next year they even promised the drone itself.
(Then they said that sponsors donated special forces laser designators, I almost fell off the couch ...)

[Andrey R2R]

Not only AWACS, in Mark 2 it is possible to add ,, anti-tank missiles ,, Lahat ,,

[Dikson]

Doesn't the spetsura buy equipment for itself? Well, different models of devices, a body kit for weapons? Besides, what does the state say?

[Jacket in stock]

Quote: Dikson

Doesn't the spetsura buy equipment for itself? Well, different models of devices, a body kit for weapons? Besides, what does the state say?

I somehow thought that such devices should be put in the state.
Naive?

[Dikson]

UAVs that can stay in the air for a long time are an excellent tool for border guards in any country.

[sen]

Rent is Israel's ability to control and change information from drones.

[Andrey R2R]

It can be done as the Turks bought, replaced the dvigun, the optical system (heavier, almost a meter longer), + range, the possibility of additional functions, according to the developers themselves - better than the analogue, the French conjured the same over Heron