What our armed forces lack – Remote Controlled Toys for Survelliance

Seizure at Taj Hotel in Bombay – What lesson did we learn?
The terrorist attack was one of the dark days for India. The ease in which these fellas started going around showed our preparedness to handle such situation. Did any security management team take care of the situation? It also showed how disorganized we are as a nation.

While the whole incident thrown open many uncomfortable questions, the key question here is – what are we doing to better our response or our capability?

So, here is my reflection on how we should do the counter attack.

I think we have serious lapse in our surveillance. I simple words, we didn’t have the capability to know what’s happening inside the seized hotel. Did we use any high-tech gadgets. Do we have any?

Suggestion to Indian Army

While the world is making use of drones, and miniature snooping devices, we’re still far from creating our remote warfare team. It’s time we do some serious research to create robotic like machines to do reconnaissance, attack and snoop on enemy position.

Imagine if we had a fleet of remote controlled vehicles, who can do various task such as 1) surveillance ( using camera and night vision lenses 2) Attack using some kind of nerve gas or open tear gas. In that case we could have saved attest few more lives

What can these remote vehicles do for army

1. Capture live images and transmit it to the monitoring team
2. Deploy or drop small charges, tear gas 
3. Go to a sealed door and paste explosives like RDX to open it
   ( with a remote controlled arm)
4. Use night vision lenses to capture the moments in the dark  
5. Terrorize the attackers with fake sirens or calls
6. Deploy sensors to detect movement 
7. Change shape like the Transponder movie. Change the vehicle into ball all of camera and roll 🙂
8. Carry first aid kit or water
9. Have fire power to shoot at villains
10. Small robots which can climb walls and fix cameras for monitoring. 
11. Shoot teaser guns
12. Mimic some fake noises ( dog, cat)

Why is India Lacking Behind – How to Built this Capability
Either we don’t have such stuffs, or they are secretive about it. And here’s another plan. Our army should sponsor events where public can display remote cars, vehicles. I know for sure, that there are many young boys who has the capability to make such stuff. Probably they are waiting for chance to show their talent.

Indian Army Sponsored Robotic Wars
Make use of a forum to attract young fellas keen in building remote vehicles

It’s time India adds a robotic division to it’s platoon! Next time something like this happens, let’s use such machines to go to the foxhole. Also, there should be a central monitoring team to take control of any such terrorist attack.

I read somewhere in a newspaper that Indian army is spending big budget on research and development of such toys. But, as usual Indian armed forces are too secretive like some UFO project.

I don’t understand why these guys can’t share the stuffs which are coming out. Anyways, we know that China are good copycats and they do a good job at it. Once any product is out, these fellas can easily replicate it. Sometimes, they make far better duplicate at lesser cost.

So, here’s my suggestion to Indian Army General and the top brass

1) Pls share the developments on your blog ( if you have one)
2) Involve private hands in the development of such robots
3) Fund research labs or give incentives to private firms to develop surveillance robots