What Is Akashteer, The AI-Powered Defence Shield That Thwarted Pakistan’s Drone, Missile Attacks | ABP Decodes
Following Pakistani attacks with drones and missiles, India's Akashteer air defense system, an AI-powered, automated system, intercepted them.
Pakistan launched a series of coordinated drone and missile attacks along India's western border on the intervening night of May 8 and May 9. Armed drones were also detected at several locations.
According to the defense officials, these attacks were intercepted by India's air defense systems, which prevented significant damage.
What Are India's Air Defence Systems? It is ‘Iron’ Dome’—Akashteer.
What is Akashteer?
Akashteer is a system designed to automate detection, tracking, and also the engagement of enemy aircraft, drones, and missiles. It integrates various radar systems, sensors, and communication technologies into a single operational framework.
How Does Akashteer Work?
Akashteer gathers data from multiple sources, processes it, and allows for automated, real-time engagement decisions. It is a part of the broader C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) framework, working in coordination with other systems. The system is vehicle-based, which makes it mobile and easier to handle in hostile environments.
Akashteer stopped all the inbound airborne drones from Pakistan, missiles, other micro UAVs, and other loitering munitions and prevented them from entering the Indian airspace.
In a series of posts on X, DD News explained what Akashteer does.
“‘Akashteer’, the fully AI-powered autonomous defence system successfully did the real-time target interception and indulged in drone warfare,” a DD News post said.
"The air defence system provides a common, real-time air picture to all involved parties (control room, radars, and Air Defense Guns), enabling coordinated air defense operations. It is a system designed to automate detection, tracking and engagement of enemy aircraft, drones and missiles. It integrates various radar systems, sensors and communication technologies into a single operational framework," the DD News said.
According to DD News, Akashteer is capable of intercepting and neutralising hostlie UAVs without detection, using no active radar signatures. It relied entirely on stealth drone tracking, satellite surveillance, and AI-based decision-making.
India is now the first non-Western nation to successfully integrate its autonomous drone swarms, indigenous satellite surveillance, and AI battlefield coordination into a single combat platform.
The experts across the world are calling Akashteer a “seismic shift in warfare strategy.” With this, India has entered the elite club of nations with fully integrated, automated Air Defence Command and Control capability.
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