WARMATE drones used in Myanmar attack: Ulfa & PLA
The Army officially denied any knowledge of such attacks. The two outfits on Monday strongly questioned this denial, pointing out that the wreckage from drones used in such operations could reveal the make of the drones and their operators.
They said "according to the Vayu Aerospace Review (June 19, 2022)," India acquired the Poland-made WARMATE loitering munition and the "Indian Army even tested WARMATE in Kashmir, in the Ladakh region, in high mountain areas near the border with the People's Republic of China."
"According to the local public, it was reported that UAVs were launched from Wangti and a place in between Nampong and Joyrampur. From our camps, so far, we have recovered five Type 3 WARMATE wreckages of Year 2022. Interestingly, India used WARMATE from the same batch against Pakistan during Operation Sindoor," the two outfits claimed.
They added that to ensure that the people of the WESEA region (Western South East Asia) "never unite, India is keeping the people of WESEA divided along ethnic and religious lines, salting the old wounds, creating and funding pseudo-revolutionaries, hiring foreign mercenaries, and stalling leaders who want wealth and status by offering them power in exchange for loyalty to India."
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WESEA is a geopolitical and cultural concept used particularly by some groups in northeast India to describe their northeastern region along with adjoining areas such as the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh and parts of western Myanmar.
"…deceiving and dividing the people of the WESEA is, in fact, a good policy for India because India does not care about the people; India only cares about the resourceful land of ours.
That is why India denied the drone attack against PLA and ULFA (I) on July 13, 2025," the joint statement said.
Myanmar's leading media group, "The Irrawaddy," reported on July 18 that "A high-level Indian military delegation was in Naypitaw Wednesday," which met Vice-Senior General Soe Win, Myanmar's junta deputy leader, and discussed border security "in the wake of Sunday's drone attack by the Indian army on a separatist outfit near the border in Myanmar's Sagaing Region."
Myanmar's "Mizzima" also reported about this. A source said the visit of the Indian delegation was a routine visit.
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