BSF Downs 255 Pakistani Drones in 2025 Amid Intensifying Aerial Smuggling War
BSF unleashes full anti-drone arsenal as Pakistan floods Punjab skies with narcotics and guns.
The Border Security Force has neutralised an astonishing 255 Pakistani drones in 2025 alone, with most of the unmanned aerial vehicles ferrying multi-crore consignments of heroin, ICE, pistols, AK rifles, grenades and explosives across the Punjab frontier, BSF Punjab Frontier Inspector General Atul Fulzele disclosed during a high-profile media briefing in Amritsar on Monday, describing the ongoing campaign as “an invisible air war” waged by Pakistani agencies against India.
As dense winter fog begins blanketing the border belt from November onwards — a season historically exploited by smugglers for low-altitude drone flights — the BSF has rolled out an upgraded multi-layered counter-drone grid comprising radar-integrated jammers, laser-directed energy weapons, net-guns and dedicated anti-drone companies equipped with night-vision and thermal imaging systems capable of detecting and destroying intruders even in zero-visibility conditions.
Inspector General Fulzele warned that every riverine gap, unfenced patch and border road will see intensified joint nakabandi with Punjab Police, while quick-reaction teams will maintain real-time surveillance on known receivers and village informants who rush to retrieve midnight drops, ensuring that even if a drone evades initial detection, the consignment never reaches the hands of drug mafias inside India.
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Beyond the drone kills, BSF troops have seized 329 kg of heroin, 16 kg of high-purity ICE (methamphetamine), 191 illegal weapons, 12 live hand grenades and more than 10 kg of RDX-grade explosives till 14 November 2025, while eliminating three armed Pakistani intruders in direct encounters and arresting 240 Indian facilitators and 19 Pakistani nationals involved in cross-border smuggling syndicates.
Barely 24 hours before the press conference, alert BSF jawans from the 103 Battalion recovered a packet containing 50 rounds of 9mm pistol ammunition dropped by yet another Pakistani hexacopter near Muthiawala village in Ferozepur sector — a stark reminder that despite suffering unprecedented losses of drones and narcotics worth hundreds of crores, Pakistan’s military-smuggler nexus continues to push aggressive aerial incursions, forcing the BSF to remain on permanent war-like alert along the 553-km Punjab border.
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