From MIRV-equipped strategic missiles to reported heavy conventional penetrators, the Agni-5 architecture is showing the potential to evolve far beyond its original nuclear-deterrence role
The Technology Development Board under the Department of Science and Technology has entered into an agreement with the company to support the manufacturing and commercial rollout of GrivaVision, a portable digital colposcope designed to assist healthcare professionals in detecting pre-cancerous cervical lesions at an early stage.
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited is reviving production of the Su-30MKI at its Nashik complex, bringing one of India’s most important fighter manufacturing lines back into active aircraft production several years after the original licensed-production programme was completed. Under the new programme, HAL will manufacture 12 additional Su-30MKI fighters for the Indian Air Force, with deliveries expected to be completed by 2029.
Hyderabad already has a formally announced and confirmed Rafale fuselage-production programme involving Dassault Aviation and Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL). Nagpur, meanwhile, has an established Dassault industrial base through Dassault Reliance Aerospace Limited (DRAL) and has been reported as a potential location for the Indian Rafale Final Assembly Line, although the final industrial arrangement for the 114-aircraft programme has not yet been contractually fixed.
The company’s work represents an important branch of India’s emerging bioeconomy. Instead of depending entirely on farmland, fisheries or conventional chemical feedstocks, String Bio is exploring how biological manufacturing can produce useful materials inside controlled fermentation facilities.
Gurugram-based Chakr Innovation is addressing this problem through an Indian-developed retrofit approach. Its flagship product, Chakr Shield, is fitted to the exhaust system of an existing diesel generator and is designed to reduce harmful emissions without requiring the operator to discard or replace the generator.
Indigenous UAV-to-UAV deployment could allow Indian forces to push reconnaissance, electronic warfare and autonomous systems deeper into contested battlespaces
Its flagship F77 platform combines a large structural battery pack, high-output electric drivetrain, connected-vehicle systems and aviation-inspired industrial design. At the experimental end of its development programme, the F99 Factory Racing Platform explores 400-volt architecture, carbon-fibre construction, active aerodynamics and electric-superbike levels of performance.
Delhi-based defence technology company VEDA Aeronautics is developing an underwater decoy for the Indian Navy, with plans to subsequently evolve the platform into a miniature underwater attack drone, opening a potentially important new front in India’s development of autonomous naval warfare systems.
More recently, AjnaLens devices were also reported among the surveillance technologies deployed by police personnel around Jantar Mantar in New Delhi in July 2026, bringing the technology back into public attention — this time accompaginning to move out of police control rooms and CCTV monitoring centres and directly onto the faces of officers in the field.
