Kalyani Strategic Systems Limited, or KSSL, is the wholly owned defence subsidiary of Bharat Forge and now leads the Kalyani Group’s defence business. FN Herstal is part of Belgium’s FN Browning Group and brings more than 135 years of experience in small arms and integrated weapon systems.
During the visit, Larsen & Toubro and John Cockerill Defense were reported to have concluded an agreement connected with the supply of turrets for the Zorawar programme. L&T is the principal industry partner working with the Defence Research and Development Organisation on the Indian Light Tank.
Indi Energy, the brand of Indigenous Energy Storage Technologies Private Limited, is developing sodium-ion batteries in India while converting agricultural and biological waste into a high-value battery material called BioBlack™ hard carbon.
KSSL, the wholly owned defence subsidiary of Bharat Forge, and Thales signed the Strategic Alliance Agreement in New Delhi on September 3, 2026, during the high-level Belgian visit to India. The arrangement creates a framework for technology transfer, local production and distribution of 2.75-inch, or 70-mm, rocket systems and associated equipment.
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.
Announced on September 2, 2026, the partnership combines Kirloskar’s engineering and large-scale manufacturing capabilities with DEUTZ’s established international sales, distribution and service network. The collaboration is aimed at strengthening the companies’ presence in the global under-2-litre off-highway engine segment.
The agreements were signed on September 2, 2026 at SMM Hamburg. GRSE has clarified that these are cooperation frameworks rather than confirmed orders, and no immediate financial impact has been disclosed.
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.
Construction formally commenced with a steel-cutting ceremony at Cochin Shipyard on September 2, 2026. The four vessels belong to Svitzer’s TRAnsverse 2600e class, an advanced 26-metre tug design developed for demanding harbour and terminal operations. Cochin Shipyard and Svitzer describe the vessels as being among the most advanced green tugs currently under construction globally.
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.
