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For France and United States’s markets, India is often not exporting complete front-line weapon platforms. Instead, Indian companies are increasingly embedded in global aerospace and defence supply chains, supplying fuselages, empennages, aerostructures, electronics, precision parts and specialist subsystems to global OEMs. That is a different export model, but an equally important one.
According to JMK Research, India added 37.8 GW of new solar capacity in calendar year 2025, including 28.6 GW of utility-scale solar, 7.9 GW of rooftop solar, and 1.35 GW of off-grid systems.
In practical terms, that means India must be able to absorb a first strike and still retain the capacity to respond. Submarines are the most survivable leg of that triad because, unlike aircraft on bases or missiles in known locations, an SSBN at sea is difficult to detect, track, and target. That is why the expansion of the Arihant-class fleet is strategically consequential even when much of the programme remains officially opaque.
Addressing scientists and researchers at NSTL, Singh said the new facility would allow India to design, develop and test critical naval equipment, systems and sub-systems within the country, reducing dependence on overseas testing infrastructure. He described the LCT as more than just a new installation, calling it an enabling backbone for advances in propulsion, noise reduction and stealth technologies that are central to modern naval engineering.
A useful way to think about Swayam Raksha Kavach is as part of India’s effort to reduce dependence on imported “black-box” avionics and survivability electronics. In fighter procurement, imported EW suites are often among the most tightly controlled technologies, with source code, mission data flexibility, reprogramming rights, emitter library control and future upgrade freedom all becoming strategic issues.
In February 2024, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan said space acts as a force multiplier across land, sea, air and cyber, and called for building counter-space capabilities as a deterrent to safeguard Indian space assets.
The Indian delegation was led by Amitabh Prasad, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence, and included senior representatives from the Ministry of Defence, the Indian Armed Forces and the Indian Coast Guard. India’s High Commissioner to Mozambique, Robert Shetkintong, and the Defence Attaché also participated in the meeting. The Mozambican side was led by Casimiro Augusto Muieo, Permanent Secretary for Defence.
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.
