NOUSHERA: After a number of blasts triggered by Pakistani army and militants using remote control devices, Indian troops have been equipped with portable jammers for protection as they patrol the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir.
It is now a part of the drill that one of the jawans of the patrol team will carry the jammer for disarming any remote-controlled Improvised Explosive Devices.
Weighing around 80 kgs along with batteries, the machine can jam any frequency in a radius of 50 meters during mobile patrolling, according to the operator of Jammer.
Wearing one such machine on his back and armed with digital tools, Sepoy Surinder Singh (name changed) said, “Jammers are now part of the patrolling or any operation, be it anti-infiltration or anything else along LoC.”
The jawan, while trekking in a mountainous area somewhere in the Noushera sector, tells a group of visiting media persons that, “It is a security measure against RC (remote- controlled) IEDs attacks along the LoC.”
The jammers have been inducted to ensure safety of the soldiers during patrolling on the LoC as there have been a series of blasts of IEDs triggered by the enemy. (AGENCIES)
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