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During their bilateral meeting, Rajnath Singh and Theo Francken reviewed the full spectrum of defence and defence-industrial cooperation. The two sides agreed to strengthen the relationship through a structured defence cooperation dialogue, high-level visits, professional military exchanges, training and capacity building.
BDL currently lists four manufacturing units: Hyderabad, Bhanur and Ibrahimpatnam in Telangana, and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. It is also developing additional facilities at Amravati in Maharashtra and Jhansi in the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor.
Under the Ministry of Defence’s Innovations for Defence Excellence, or iDEX, programme, Siliconia was chosen to develop a lightweight communication system based on an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit, or ASIC, combined with a software-defined antenna.
The company said on September 2, 2026 that the AI model has been built specifically around military requirements rather than by simply adapting a commercially available general-purpose language model. It forms part of a broader indigenous defence-AI ecosystem being developed under the Ministry of Defence’s Innovations for Defence Excellence, or iDEX, ADITI 2.0 programme.
One of the most important aspects of Vayu Baan is its expected ability to function in a GNSS-denied environment. Modern combat zones are increasingly saturated with jamming and spoofing systems designed to interfere with satellite navigation. A drone that depends entirely on GPS can therefore become unreliable at precisely the moment it is needed most. The IAF requirement consequently places emphasis on autonomous navigation even when satellite-navigation signals are unavailable or disrupted.
Prime Toolings announced the achievement through its official social-media channels, including the company’s Instagram account, stating that its Rotating Detonation Engine had successfully completed development and testing and had reached TRL-5. The company has subsequently released additional glimpses of the engine’s internal configuration and indicated that further technical information from the development programme will be made public.
The Japan Air Self-Defense Force officially announced on August 25, 2026 that Exercise Veer Guardian 26 will be conducted with the Indian Air Force from September 9 to September 21 at Air Force Station Jodhpur and the surrounding airspace in Rajasthan. Japan will deploy three F-2A fighters from its 8th Air Wing at Tsuiki Air Base, accompanied by approximately 110 personnel. The wider deployment and redeployment phase will run from September 1 to September 30.
The deployment is expected to begin in September 2026 and will mark the first time Indian Air Force instructors have been integrated into the fast-jet training system at RAF Valley. The arrangement reflects the growing depth of professional cooperation between the Indian Air Force and the Royal Air Force and represents an unusual reversal of traditional military training links between the two countries.
Khagantak-243 is the 300-kg-class member of JSR Dynamics’ Long Range Glide Bomb family. The company’s official specifications list the K-243 with a length of up to four metres, a diameter of approximately 290 mm and a wingspan of up to three metres. The broader LRGB architecture is designed around the widely used Mk 80 family of conventional warheads, allowing different bomb bodies and payload classes to be incorporated into the same basic stand-off weapon concept.
Kepler is now preparing to translate that technology-development programme into an operational space-based ISR capability. The company raised $8 million in seed funding on September 1, 2026, in a round led by Blue Ashva Capital and co-led by Finvolve India Accelerator along with other investors. The investment has been reported at around ₹66.4 crore and represents Kepler’s first external fundraising round since the company was established in 2018.
