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Military Use Of Drones Is A Dangerous Dimension Of Proxy War; Commercial Vessels At Grave Risk

A few years ago, drones began to be used for spying and surveillance. But the military use of drones is of recent beginning. As a lethal military weapon, the power and significance of drones first came to be witnessed in the Azerbaijan-Armenia war.

Azerbaijan deployed the Bayraktar drones supplied by Turkey. These drones caused havoc on Armenian armor, and consequently, Azerbaijan gained the upper hand in Nagorno-Karabakh.

After that, drones began to be used as a military weapon, and countries regularly upgraded their arsenals and tried to acquire drones, especially the Bayraktar from Turkey, as it had proven its lethality in the war in Trans-Caspian states. Pakistan quickly obtained the drone from Turkey and used these against India in J&K Union Territory.

The J&K police have shot down many drones, but many more have performed the assignment of dropping arms, ammunition, and even Indian currency notes close to the line of control on the Indian side.

The police recovered a good quantity of arms, ammunition, RDX, and other equipment dropped by the drones in the night.

The Pakistani intelligence has successfully recruited conduits on the Indian side of the LoC who are conveyed through wireless about the site where the drones have dropped military hardware.

The conduits collect the material and carry it to the destination either under cover of darkness or through trucks whose drivers are bribed to carry the banned material to the destination conveyed to them by the commander.

Iranian Drone Tactics

A new dimension has been added to drone tactics by Iran, a country that has also conducted research for streamlining the drones and using these at various destinations as dictated by the Pasdaran, meaning the security guards.

Several incidents have occurred in this connection when drones were used for a particular purpose.

The new dimension is deploying drones to attack the moving ships on high seas, causing significant harm to the ship.

Israeli Times on November 16 reported that a bomb-carrying drone had struck an oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire off the coast of Oman amid heightened tensions with Iran, officials said Wednesday.




Iran Arash-2 drone
Iran’s Arash-2 drone

The attack on the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Pacific Zircon happened Tuesday night off the coast of Oman, a Middle East-based defense official told the Associated Press. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they did not have the authorization to discuss the attack publicly.

While no one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, suspicion immediately fell on Iran. Speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity to discuss unpublicized details of the attack, an Israeli official said that it appeared Iran attacked with a Shahid-136 kamikaze drone. Iran has supplied those drones to Russia to target infrastructure in its fight with Ukraine.

In a statement, Eastern Pacific Shipping said the Pacific Zircon, carrying gas oil, had been “hit by a projectile” some 150 miles (240 kilometers) off the coast of Oman. The Faytuks News of November 16 said that the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, a British military organization in the region monitoring shipping, told the AP: “We are aware of an incident, and it’s being investigated at this time.”

Officials identified the vessel attacked as the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Pacific Zircon. Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping operates that tanker, a company owned by Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer reported AP.

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