Drones Complicate the Fight Between India and Pakistan

The debut of attack drones in the conflict between India and Pakistan injects a new and worrying war style between the two nuclear armed powers, experts said.

But it was also inevitable, given the proliferation of armed drones in combat worldwide.

Both India and Pakistan have been developing their respective drone construction industries in recent years, and both import drones of foreign allies. Most of what is now being deployed in the middle of the last conflict, after an attack in the disputed cashmere region, seems to be unidirectional kamikaze drones that became omnipresent in the war in Ukraine and will do everything.

India has said that he identified Turkish drones used by Pakistan; Pakistan said he identified Israeli drones used by India. Neinder of these reports could be verified independently.

Neinder Country seems to be using any drones capable of transporting nuclear eyes, said James Patton Rogers, an expert at drone war at Cornell University. And although the so -called “incredible worrying” conflict, hey, also pointed out that drones are generally used as the lowest possible step step in a conflict, usually at the pressure and aerial defenses of Pro -Opponent.

“I am cautiously optimistic about the fact that the first response is a limited number of drones used,” Mr. Rogers, executive director of the Brooks Tech Policy Institute of Cornell, said in an interview. “They show that, politically and militarily, they can inflict damage when and where they want, and both parties have one leg without a doubt trying to do that.”

At least 118 countries currently have donuts in their arsenales, compared to about 60 nations in 2010 that had them or were considering, Rogers said.

Pakistan probably has a limited number of drones, he said, although he has developed several attacks and also the so -called kamikaze donations. It also imports armed drones of China and, as recently as last year, from Türkiye, according to the International Peace Research Institute of Stockholm.

The Indian drones industry is much more sophisticated, Rogers said, and includes drones of earth, air and sea. He said that I also buy them from Israel.

He said Neith Side had probably launched more than 100 drones against the other, and warned that erroneous information could exaggerate the size of the reported attacks.

Shuja Nawaz, former director of the center of southern Asia of the Atlantic Council, said that both India and Pakistan seemed to be using drones to explore the positions of the weapons systems of others and test their response times. He said that both were refusing to recognize the international rules that govern sovereign airspace.

“There will be frustration in their ability to do the son of damage they want on the other side, through the use of unmanned air weapons systems,” Nawaz said. “And then the next stage may be trying to resort to airplanes and missiles. And since both have nuclear weapons, God knows what else.”