Shah expects the sector to expand further and estimated that India’s drone industry could eventually reach around ₹19,000–20,000 crore. The growth is being driven by rising military procurement, agricultural applications, surveying, infrastructure inspection, logistics, surveillance and a rapidly developing domestic manufacturing base.
WB Electronics India is responsible for the Polish group’s operations in the country and operates from New Delhi. The company describes its Indian portfolio as covering unmanned reconnaissance platforms, strike systems, battlefield-management technologies, military communications, fire-control systems, cybersecurity and equipment modernisation.
The Defence Production Secretary visited BEL Ghaziabad along with senior officials from the Department of Defence Production. He was received by Rashmi Kathuria, Executive Director and Unit Head, along with other senior officials of the complex.
Official West Bengal industrial-development documentation identifies Jangal Sundari Karmanagari as a major industrial project under the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation. The wider development is being implemented in phases, with land intended for large industries as well as ancillary and MSME activity.
Pinaka was developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation to provide the Indian Army with an indigenous multi-barrel rocket artillery system capable of delivering large volumes of fire against battlefield targets.
Draft DAP 2026 proposes to strengthen this approach by explicitly defining indigenous design and by increasing the indigenous-content requirement under the Buy Indian-IDDM category from 50 per cent to 60 per cent.
H-562 follows the delivery of the first vessel, ICG H-561, by about three months. Chowgule Shipbuilding Division confirmed that both craft were delivered within their contractual timelines and exceeded the contracted maximum speed of 45 knots during trials.
The Navy has issued a Request for Information to assess the capabilities of Indian shipyards for the programme. The proposed acquisition is envisaged under the Buy (Indian–IDDM) category, placing indigenous design, development and manufacturing at the centre of the project.
The scale of that industrial base is becoming particularly important as the armed forces move from small experimental purchases towards much larger procurement programmes covering surveillance drones, logistics systems, loitering munitions, autonomous platforms, swarm technologies and counter-UAS systems.
Unlike traditional radios whose operating characteristics are largely determined by fixed hardware, a Software Defined Radio shifts many communication functions into software. Frequency management, waveforms, encryption, networking protocols and other functions can therefore be modified or upgraded without replacing the entire radio hardware.
