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The data points to a broader structural shift in India’s defence manufacturing ecosystem. Over the last five years, defence exports have increased by around three times, suggesting that India is moving beyond its traditional role as a major arms importer and is gradually consolidating its position as a credible supplier of military systems, subsystems, components and support equipment.
India’s Kaveri programme is one of the most important and misunderstood efforts in the history
Conducted by DRDO’s Centre for High Energy Systems and Sciences (CHESS) at the National Open Air Range in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, the trial showcased a vehicle-mounted 30 kW laser weapon capable of engaging fixed-wing UAVs, swarm drones, and surveillance sensors. Official reporting described the trial as a full-spectrum demonstration of the system’s capability, including structural damage to drone targets and disabling of hostile sensors, placing India among a small group of countries that have demonstrated high-power laser directed-energy weapons.
According to the Ministry of Defence, the original capital expenditure provision of Rs 1.80 lakh crore was later enhanced by the Ministry of Finance after the pace of spending in the first half of the year and the armed forces’ rising modernisation requirements, including needs emerging after Operation Sindoor.
In simple terms, the KALI ecosystem is less about a continuous beam burning through a target and more about brief, intense electromagnetic output with applications in radiation generation, hardening studies, and microwave effects.
The Negev is now being manufactured at the Adani Group’s facility in Gwalior after the group took over PLR Systems, which had long served as IWI’s Indian small-arms partner. The handover has been described as part of the technology transfer and indigenisation process aligned with India’s self-reliance push in defence manufacturing.
At the lower end, engines in the 400–600 HP class are typically relevant for lighter specialist combat vehicles, support variants and some protected mobility platforms. The 700–1000 HP band is more aligned with infantry combat vehicles and upgraded legacy tracked platforms. The 1200–1500 HP class is where future main battle tanks and heavier combat vehicles become practical, particularly when armies seek high mobility without sacrificing armour, electronics or larger turrets.
Ministry of Defence signed a capital acquisition contract worth around Rs 1,950 crore with Bharat Electronics Limited for two Mountain Radars, along with associated equipment and required infrastructure, for the Indian Air Force.
Designed and constructed in India by CSL to the Navy’s requirements and in accordance with DNV classification rules, Malwan represents a purpose-built platform for a mission area that is becoming steadily more important in the Indian maritime environment. In an era of expanding submarine activity, contested sea spaces, and growing infrastructure security concerns, shallow-water anti-submarine vessels fill a critical niche by operating effectively in coastal zones where larger warships may be less optimised.
The launch is significant not merely because it is the first ship of a new class, but because it represents the next step in a wider effort to strengthen the Navy’s offshore and constabulary capabilities through domestically built platforms. According to the Ministry of Defence, the 11-vessel NGOPV programme is being executed concurrently at two shipyards — Goa Shipyard Ltd. in Goa and Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers in Kolkata — underlining both industrial scale and distributed shipbuilding capacity within India’s defence ecosystem.
