Autonomous systems, drones, defence AI, electronic warfare, cybersecurity, quantum security, aerospace defence, and strategic technologies developed in India.
PM Modi commissioned three home-built warships — stealth frigate INS Dunagiri, survey ship INS Sanshodhak and anti-submarine craft INS Agray — into the Indian Navy in a single day at Kolkata, a marker of how much of the combat stack GRSE now builds in India.
Manik Gupta
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India's Ministry of Defence has signed a ₹425 crore contract with Bharat Forge for 12 sets of indigenous 1.25 MW Marine Gas Turbine Generators for the Navy — closing a strategic gap in who makes a warship's onboard electrical power.
Manik Gupta
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Kochi's EyeROV has won one of India's largest marine-robotics contracts — a ₹47-crore Indian Navy order for indigenous underwater remotely operated vehicles. Founded in 2017 with a fully in-house tech stack and 100-plus deployments behind it, the startup is turning subsea inspection into a sovereign capability.
Manik Gupta
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Kalyani Strategic Systems and South Africa's Paramount used the Paris defence expo to debut the Simha 4x4, a clean-sheet light armoured vehicle engineered around NATO-qualified aggregates for fast localisation abroad. There is no customer yet — but the design intent signals where India's private defence champions want to play.
Manik Gupta
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Three back-to-back hits at Chandipur on 27 February 2026 — against approaching, receding and crossing targets — moved DRDO's man-portable air defence missile toward production clearance, as India races to replace Soviet-era Iglas and counter the low, slow drone threat exposed during Operation Sindoor.
Manik Gupta
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A Pune startup's autonomous, gun-armed surface drones — capable of 50 knots and operating through GPS denial — are heading to the Indian Navy under an iDEX order for a 12-boat swarm. It is India's first serious attempt to combine autonomy with lethal force at sea, and a case study in how the iDEX pipeline turns garage prototypes into warfighting kit.
Manik Gupta
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Chennai startup Big Bang Boom Solutions delivered the first lot of its indigenous Vajra Sentinel counter-drone system to the Indian Air Force on 20 May 2025, fast-tracked in the wake of Operation Sindoor. Five years from a boardroom jammer demo to a DGAQA-cleared system on the border — and a ₹200-crore-plus order behind it.
Manik Gupta
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DRDO and L&T's 25-tonne Zorawar put live rounds on target above 4,200 metres at Nyoma in eastern Ladakh, and was airlifted in by an IAF Il-76 — a milestone toward an air-portable combat vehicle the heavy Arjun and T-90 fleets simply cannot replace in the Himalayas.
Manik Gupta
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