The company describes its approach as an in-house avionics ecosystem designed to work across different types of unmanned aircraft. This includes fixed-wing platforms, quadcopters, hexacopters, hybrid VTOL systems, tiltrotors and other UAV configurations.
The company says its ecosystem covers power distribution, satellite navigation, flight control, radio controllers and batteries, supported by its proprietary Aakash software platform. These systems are developed alongside complete UAV platforms, allowing the company to treat the drone as an integrated aircraft rather than a collection of unrelated components.
The company has described the platform as capable of supporting perception, navigation, reasoning, agentic action and fleet intelligence. These capabilities form important building blocks for increasingly autonomous drone systems.
The seven companies — Munitions India Limited, Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited, Advanced Weapons and Equipment India Limited, Troop Comforts Limited, Yantra India Limited, India Optel Limited and Gliders India Limited — were created in October 2021 to bring greater accountability, operational flexibility and commercial discipline to the former ordnance factory network.
AASHVAST stands for Assessment and Analysis of Electronic Systems Hardware for Vulnerabilities and Security Threats.
The programme is being implemented under the Directorate General of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers and is intended to examine military drones at a level deeper than conventional physical inspection.
The company described the approval as an important step in its transition towards becoming a vertically integrated defence solutions provider. It plans to combine the newly licensed manufacturing capabilities with its existing expertise in autonomous systems and maritime engineering.
The mission represents the company’s transition from technology development to orbital deployment. SatLeo has been working on thermal imaging systems capable of operating from Low Earth Orbit and producing temperature-based datasets that can reveal information not visible in conventional optical satellite imagery.
Traditional pipe-inspection robots are generally effective in straight sections but can struggle when networks include bends, junctions, gradients, manholes and vertical sections. Puralink has designed Ferret specifically for these environments.
ULOOK is developing what it describes as an autonomous RF signal intelligence stack for monitoring electromagnetic activity across large geographic areas. The platform is intended to detect and analyse emissions from systems such as Automatic Identification System transmitters, maritime radar, satellite communications equipment and satphones.
The company’s approach brings together a MEMS TCDIR gas sensor and CMOS AFE SoC architecture for signal acquisition, processing and interpretation. The platform is intended to provide compact, low-power and scalable multi-gas sensing for industrial and embedded applications.
