August 29, 2026

Kautilya

Defense Infrastructure Make in India

India Launches ₹3,500-Crore GRSE–YIL Expansion to Boost Warship Building and Strategic Defence Manufacturing

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari carried out the Bhumi Pujan for the projects virtually from GRSE Bhavan in Kolkata on August 23. Three of the projects are being undertaken by GRSE at Raichak, Shalimar and Kidderpore, while YIL is establishing two major forging facilities at its Metal and Steel Factory at Ishapore. Together, the investments represent one of the more significant recent capacity additions to India’s state-owned defence manufacturing ecosystem.

By Kautilya / August 23, 2026
Defense Make in India

EndureAir Unveils VAHAK-6 Multi-UAV Mothership as India Pushes Deeper Into Drone Teaming

EndureAir began publicly teasing VAHAK-6 on August 21, 2026, before confirming that the new system was on its way. The company has not yet released a complete technical specification for VAHAK-6, including its operational radius, deployment altitude, communications architecture or the exact configuration of the six carried UAVs. However, the concept points toward a carrier-and-deployed-drone architecture in which a larger UAV provides transport, reach and potentially communications support for a group of smaller aircraft.

By Kautilya / August 23, 2026
Defense Economy Make in India

Big Bang Boom Solutions — Building Indigenous Counter-Drone Defences for India’s New Battlefield

Chennai-based Big Bang Boom Solutions, or BBBS, has emerged as one of the Indian companies developing systems for this new category of warfare. Its principal counter-UAS programme, Vajra Sentinel, has been conceived not as a single jammer or radar but as an integrated defensive architecture that combines passive radio-frequency detection, radar surveillance, electro-optical and infrared tracking, artificial-intelligence-assisted classification, electronic countermeasures, command-and-control software and, where required, hard-kill effectors.

By Kautilya / August 23, 2026
Defense Make in India

DIASPRO Develops Indigenous SATEEK Digital Ballistic Computer to Modernise T-90 Tank Fire-Control Systems

SATEEK has been designed to transform legacy fire-control architecture into a more modern digital system capable of performing ballistic computations rapidly while interfacing with the tank’s sensors and fire-control equipment. DIASPRO says the system uses an advanced processing architecture intended to improve firing accuracy, particularly while the tank is moving.

By Kautilya / August 23, 2026