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A mobile launch configuration can give operators greater flexibility in choosing launch locations and reduce dependence on prepared infrastructure. It can also allow a UAV system to be moved, deployed and recovered from different positions according to operational requirements.
The additional boats would build upon the experience gained from the existing Kalvari-class submarine programme, which involved technology cooperation with France and domestic construction at MDL.
The company’s technology portfolio spans electromechanical actuators, electrohydraulic systems, sensors, switches, valves, servo drives, motion-control hardware and embedded control electronics. These systems form the mechanical and electronic interface between a platform’s command architecture and the physical movement required to execute that command.
For an Indian defence startup, overseas manufacturing represents a different model from conventional defence exports. Rather than supplying completed systems only from India, the company is seeking to combine Indian-developed platforms with local production capability in an overseas market.
The visit brings together three increasingly important strands of India’s regional engagement: the expansion of indigenous defence manufacturing, the emergence of BrahMos as a defence export programme and India’s growing security cooperation with Southeast Asian countries.
The agreement emerged from the fifth India-UAE Army-to-Army Staff Talks held in Abu Dhabi in late September 2026, where delegations from the Indian Army and UAE Land Forces reviewed existing cooperation and identified areas for further engagement.
The company describes its approach as an in-house avionics ecosystem designed to work across different types of unmanned aircraft. This includes fixed-wing platforms, quadcopters, hexacopters, hybrid VTOL systems, tiltrotors and other UAV configurations.
The company says its ecosystem covers power distribution, satellite navigation, flight control, radio controllers and batteries, supported by its proprietary Aakash software platform. These systems are developed alongside complete UAV platforms, allowing the company to treat the drone as an integrated aircraft rather than a collection of unrelated components.
Official Ministry of Defence records confirm that the second Indo-Myanmar Annual Defence Dialogue was held in Nay Pyi Taw on September 25–26, 2025 under an Indian delegation led by Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh. That meeting was aimed at strengthening bilateral defence engagement and military relations between the two neighbours.
The seven companies — Munitions India Limited, Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited, Advanced Weapons and Equipment India Limited, Troop Comforts Limited, Yantra India Limited, India Optel Limited and Gliders India Limited — were created in October 2021 to bring greater accountability, operational flexibility and commercial discipline to the former ordnance factory network.
