How cheap and effective loitering munitions are relevant to India’s defence strategy

Ukraine war has once again brought focus to the loitering munitions, also known as the Kamikaze or suicide drones. The munitions are designed to arrive as the air defence radars that remain silent and transmit selectively for short in the general target area, wait passively, look for the target, identify and then attack. Loitering munitions allow faster response against concealed or hidden targets that emerge for short periods, among many others. The much less expensive drones are preferred over exposing high-value platforms such as fighters close to the target area. The drone attack can easily be aborted and the drone…