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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.
The roots of Ghatak go back to the older AURA concept—short for Autonomous Unmanned Research Aircraft—which emerged as India’s attempt to build a stealthy strike UCAV rather than just a surveillance drone. A 2016 Lok Sabha reply the Ministry of Defence stated that a proposal for the UCAV “Ghatak” programme and the development of a gas turbine engine for it had been submitted through official channels after review by a high-power committee chaired by the Principal Scientific Adviser.
One of the more important industrial signals in the delivery is the improvement in build timelines. Dunagiri is the fifth Project 17A ship delivered to the Navy in the last 16 months, and the programme appears to be gaining construction efficiency as experience accumulates.
Designed by the Indian Navy’s Warship Design Bureau and built by GRSE to Indian Register of Shipping classification rules, Sanshodhak is meant for full-scale coastal and deep-water hydrographic surveys, including surveys of harbour approaches, port channels and navigational routes. Its mission profile also extends beyond navigation support, since the vessel is intended to collect scientific and geophysical data that can be used for both defence and civilian applications.
