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Concerns along the Line if Control used to be about firing shells. Now we've moved on to drones. Pakistan on Wednesday claimed an “Indian spy drone” was seen intruding Pakistan’s air space along the Line of Control and a few minutes later, it was shot down by the Pakistani military forces. India has denied the claim, saying no such drone crashed or was shot down.

Whatever it actually turns out to be, the incident does shine a spotlight on both India and Pakistan's expanding drone programs. Pakistan already sports unmanned aerial vehicles with the assistance of the Chinese military, while India is developing its own weaponized drone fleet, creating a formidable arsenal of spy, target acquisition and killer drones.

According to the data from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, there are over 56 different types of UAVs used in 11 different countries. The same data reveals that India stocks both heavy and medium type UAVs as Nishant, Searcher Mk I/II and Heron. Searcher and Heron have been developed with the assistance of Israel. India also possesses anti-radiation drones from the same source, which has been designed to detect and home on an enemy radio emission source.

According to DRDO, India is also developing anti-tank missile called the Helina to equip it with Rustom-I, an unmanned combat air vehicle, indigenously developed by DRDO — effectively a drone with a missile.

In February, 2014, Israel unveiled one of its new UAV- the Harop Drone at the Aero-India show. Better known as suicide drone, Harop has the ability to fly and act as a missile at the same time. It can launch itself, hit the target spot and explode. This is one of the missiles which Indian Air Force has inducted to add it in the list of other UAVs. To get a glimpse of what this drone can do, watch this video of Harop with electro-optical sensors, exploding into the set target.