The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) operates in high-altitude, remote terrain along the Indo-China border, where extreme conditions degrade both human and equipment performance.
These regions are vulnerable to enemy drone intrusions, requiring a counter-drone solution for early detection and soft-kill neutralization (jamming & spoofing) within a safe operational radius.
A portable anti-drone system with detection, jamming, and spoofing modules to counter single and swarm drone threats from multiple directions.
| Capability | Range |
|---|---|
| Detection (Micro/Small) | ≥ 5 km |
| Detection (Medium) | ≥ 10 km |
| Jamming (Omni / Directional) | ≥ 3 km / ≥ 4 km |
| Spoofing (Omni / Directional) | ≥ 20 km / ≥ 40 km |
This project was developed as part of the Smart India Hackathon (SIH), focusing on defence and national security applications.
The aim was to design and demonstrate a feasible, modular, and scalable counter-drone architecture, emphasizing concept validation and system integration rather than full-scale deployment.
This system is a Proof of Concept (PoC) implementation of the above problem statement.
- Demonstrates core principles of detection, jamming, and spoofing
- Validates feasibility at prototype and simulation level
- Does not claim to achieve operational field ranges mentioned in the problem statement
- Designed for academic, research, and controlled testing environments
Drone detection is performed using Software Defined Radio (SDR) techniques with HackRF, focusing on identifying RF activity associated with drone communication and control links.
This is done using YOLO for the detection of drone and making a 2 DOF appratus which will be used for tracking purpose
The jamming module explores soft-kill techniques to disrupt drone control and navigation links by transmitting interference signals on targeted frequency bands.
The spoofing module demonstrates a prototype GNSS spoofing mechanism using ESP32 microcontrollers, highlighting vulnerabilities in unauthenticated navigation systems by transmitting false but valid-looking coordinate data.
To clone and try out stuff the project:
git clone https://github.com/badboy1606/anti_drone.git
Software and components Required
- GNU Radio
- HackRF One