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The decisions were announced following talks between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Japanese Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi in New Delhi on August 20, 2026. The meeting came amid growing strategic uncertainty across the Indo-Pacific and reflected the steadily expanding security dimension of the Japan-India Special Strategic and Global Partnership.
The company describes its objective as developing unmanned aerospace systems for global markets from India, with programmes intended for organisations including the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Home Affairs, National Disaster Response Force and Department of Telecommunications.
The discussions covered the entire gamut of ongoing defence and military technical cooperation, with particular emphasis on capacity building, training, military technical cooperation and defence research and development (R&D). The two sides also exchanged the Terms of Reference for institutionalising Joint Services Staff Talks between the Indian and Armenian Armed Forces.
Taken together, these developments show that India is no longer looking merely for another imported fighter engine. The larger objective is to acquire the capability to design, develop, test, manufacture, upgrade and support advanced gas turbines inside India.
The agreement was signed in Yerevan on August 17, 2026, during an official visit by Indian Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh. He held a series of meetings with Armenia’s political, defence and military leadership during the two-day visit.
The Department of Defence Production said the items together represent an estimated business potential of around ₹3,070 crore for Indian manufacturers. Once successfully developed domestically, these products will be procured from Indian industry instead of being sourced from overseas suppliers.
30-month lease will strengthen persistent maritime surveillance and intelligence gathering across the Indian Ocean Region
At the centre of this emerging approach is the Indrajaal Ranger, a vehicle-mounted counter-unmanned aircraft system developed by Hyderabad-based Indrajaal Drone Defence. The company describes Ranger as a purpose-built Anti-Drone Patrol Vehicle, or ADPV, capable of detecting, tracking and countering rogue drones while moving through border areas, urban zones and other sensitive corridors.
The programme could eventually create an aircraft very different from the Su-30MKI that entered Indian service more than two decades ago. Its enormous airframe, payload capacity, endurance and electrical space provide India with something smaller fighters cannot easily offer: room for powerful sensors, large weapons and continuing technological evolution.
More than 200 arrests and 253 detentions recorded as agencies seize IEDs, grenades, firearms and surveillance equipment ahead of Independence Day
