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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.
The projection comes from research consultancy Infisum’s “Smart Growth in a Fast Market” report, which expects India’s e-commerce industry to expand at a compound annual growth rate of approximately 18.4% through 2030.
Latest information attributed to Indian Railways shows that the initiative has now generated approximately ₹162.39 crore in cumulative sales, while more than 1.54 lakh people have benefited from the programme. More than 2,300 OSOP outlets are operating across over 2,000 railway stations, giving locally produced goods access to one of India’s largest everyday consumer networks. Nearly 1.5 lakh direct beneficiaries have received market opportunities through the initiative.
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.
