Hyderabad-based Indrajaal Drone Defence has unveiled a new Anti-Drone Patrol Vehicle called the Indrajaal Ranger.
The company says it is a fully mobile, AI-based counter-drone system designed to hunt down threats while on the move.
Most current systems are fixed to one location and can only respond when parked. Indrajaal claims the Ranger changes that approach.
It can detect, track, and stop hostile drones as it patrols border roads, urban areas, or any other vulnerable route.
The vehicle combines drone surveillance, automated threat assessment, and rapid interception into a single platform.
The company believes this gives security forces a more flexible way to deal with drones used for smuggling or surveillance.
It can disrupt cross-border networks that rely on drones to move narcotics, weapons, and other illegal material into India.
Indrajaal also says the system will help protect people in border villages, which often bear the impact of such activities.
Since the system is automated, it could also reduce pressure on police and BSF personnel who currently spend long hours monitoring large areas.
The goal, the company says, is to give security agencies a tool that improves response speed while enabling smarter manpower deployment.
Features Of Indrajaal Ranger
Indrajaal Ranger is being pitched as India’s first anti-drone patrol vehicle, capable of detecting and intercepting threats before they cross into Indian airspace.
It has been built on an all-terrain 4×4 platform and runs on the company’s SkyOS autonomy engine. The system combines long-range detection, AI tracking, and a mix of counter-drone tools.
Depending on the situation, it can attempt a cyber takeover, carry out a soft kill using electronic jamming, or launch an interceptor drone to finish the job.
The vehicle is aimed at border forces and police units that are dealing with drones used to move drugs, weapons, and explosives.
The company describes it as a mobile air defence shield designed to protect both land and the people living near the border.
The technology inside the Ranger includes radio frequency analytics, protocol intelligence, and computer vision, enabling it to identify and track a drone for as long as needed.
If it gets close enough, it can force a drone to land safely or disable it without causing damage in a crowded area. A separate interceptor option can be used for more aggressive missions that require a hard kill.
All of these actions are guided by the SkyOS system, which handles sensing, decision-making, and the actual interception.
The platform is built for tough environments, whether in a city, on a canal road, or in a remote stretch of farmland.
It can be operated by a two-person crew and does not depend entirely on the grid, which allows long-duration missions. It also stays connected to command centres, making coordination across a wide region much easier.
What sets the Ranger apart is the idea that the vehicle itself is an active weapon system. Traditional vehicle-mounted counter-drone tools are usually parked at a fixed point and only respond when a threat appears overhead. The Ranger is meant to patrol continuously and take the fight to hostile drones that are already on the move.
It can scan a wider area, respond faster, and provide protection to places that have struggled with cross-border activity. The concept is to shift from static defence to area-wide security, giving forces a better chance of stopping a drone before it reaches a crowded neighbourhood or a vulnerable village.
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Why Does India Need Mobile Anti-Drone Patrols?
The need for mobile counter-drone systems has become harder to ignore. Last week, Delhi Police said it uncovered a drone-based arms supply chain linked to Pakistan’s ISI.
Officers arrested four people accused of moving foreign-made weapons to gangs in Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Punjab. Investigators found that the weapons were flown across the border using modified drones that skim low to avoid radar.
Speaking about the scale of the problem, Kiran Raju, Founder & CEO of Indrajaal, said that the flow of weapons is no longer limited to border states. He pointed to recent Delhi Police investigations as proof that the threat is now reaching major cities. He also referred to the huge money involved in drug trafficking along India’s borders.
Drone smuggling has increased sharply along the western and northern frontiers. These unmanned flights have been used to move heroin, methamphetamine and pistols to organised crime networks inside India.
According to government figures, drugs worth more than ₹25,000 crore were seized in 2024, up over 55 percent from last year. About 44 percent of all heroin seizures came from the western border alone. Security forces also reported more than 200 Pakistani drones crossing the border in a year, the highest number seen so far.
At the launch of the Ranger, Lieutenant General Devendra Pratap Pandey (Retd) highlighted how modern threats are changing. He said that attacks are no longer limited to armed terrorists walking into sensitive locations. Instead, conflicts now increasingly involve long-range, small drones targeting critical infrastructure far from the borders.
He cited ‘Operation Spiderweb’ by Ukraine, where drones struck deep into Russian territory and destroyed around a third of strategic assets meant for nuclear systems.
“Wars today, and even more so in the near future, are not fought only at the border. They reach deep into a country’s interior. The goal is often to achieve impact without direct combat, by hitting key infrastructure,” Pandey explained.
Pandey is a former General Officer of the Indian Army, ex-Commandant of the Army War College in Mhow, and former General Officer Commanding of the Srinagar-based Chinar Corps.
- Shubhangi Palve is a defense and aerospace journalist. Before joining the EurAsian Times, she worked for ET Prime. She has over 15 years of extensive experience in the media industry, spanning print, electronic, and online domains.
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