If India has a ground zero for drone warfare, it is Chhattisgarh.

Long before Operation Sindoor thrust military drones into the national spotlight, and before the government saidReutersIndia set for $2-billion drone order in biggest buy, industry body says in June it would spend $2 billion on combat drones, India’s security forces had over the past 5–6 years settled on the drone they trusted most.

In the forests of Chhattisgarh, where drones became central to anti-Maoist operations, small........

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