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Challenges faced by military UAV manufacturers in India

In shipping, the nation of a ship's owner and nation of the flag it sails under is often different. On March 3, 2026 an 🇮🇳 flagged VLCC🛢️ 'Libra Trader', with a 🇯🇵 owner came under attack (minor) 10 nautical miles off Fujairah 🇦🇪 (outside and east of the Strait of Hormuz)

🇮🇳Chennai-based @TridenTech2019 testing its license built 30 HP Wankel engine at a 🇮🇳@CSIRNAL facility. It is a long endurance/ high performance engine, designed for military UAVs. TridentTech Engineering is incubated by IIT-Madras

U.S. deployed three additional aircraft to extract its special forces from southwestern Iran. 2/2

During the rescue of the second 🇺🇸pilot from the downed F-15E in southwestern Iran, two 🇺🇸C-130 transport aircraft that were supposed to evacuate 🇺🇸special forces were stranded and were destroyed to prevent them from falling into 🇮🇷Iranian hands. 1/2

A Large Cavitation Tunnel (LCT) is being set up by 🇮🇳#NSTL (DRDO)— Hydrodynamic facility to simulate underwater flow Project is being executed in turnkey mode with 'international technical collaboration' NSTL currently operates a smaller cavitation tunnel. pic representational

Indian Navy commissioned its 3rd SSBN INS #Aridhaman — Vessel displaces ~7,000 tonnes It follows INS #Arihant (commissioned 2016) and INS Arighaat (commissioned August 2024) With third operational 🇮🇳Arihant-class SSBN— India moves closer to Continuous At-Sea Deterrence (CASD)

@Tracking_Live Any aircraft lined up like this in the open will be struck during war

Indian Air Force's 3x C-17 9x Il-76, 9x An-32, 8x Ch-47 Chinook and 1x Mi-26 🔥🇮🇳

DHASH 6X6 2S ATV from 🇮🇳Bengaluru-based @DhashDefense Light tactical mobility platform with a cargo capacity of 400kg.

🇮🇳Air Marshal Diptendu Chowdhary: "Air defence is about resilience under saturation. The sheer size of India makes it impossible to build a layered air defence system that stops every drone or every incoming strike. So India must absorb, respond, and continue to fight"

🇮🇳#INSAditya (A59) (Aditya-class replenishment ship built by @OfficialGRSE), conducting Ship-to-ship refueling at sea for 🇮🇳 #INSVikrant (IAC-1)

A twin seater 🇺🇸F-15E was shot down over Southern Iran on 3 April 26— Pilot and Weapons officer ejected U.S.A.F retrieved one, conducting SAR operations inside Iran's territory. Vid: U.S.A.F SAR aircraft flying extremely low inside southern Iran, looking for the downed pilot.

U.S. & allies have struck more than 11,000 AI designated targets inside 🇮🇷Iran since 🇺🇸Operation Epic fury began in Feb 26. 🇺🇸AI collects data from satellites, AWACS, Sensors, Humint ➡️then process it to generate targets. Iran's ability to counter strike will go down with time.

India's defence exports grew by 63% to reach ₹38,424 cr ($4.53 billion), in FY 2025-26 Growth in exports in FY 2025-26 was lead by state-owned defence cos (🇮🇳DPSU). DPSUs accounted for 55% of total defence exports. chart @Kyunghoon_Kim_

🇮🇳 Kolkata-based @OfficialGRSE is building India’s largest ever (5,900 tons) indigenously-built advanced Ocean Research Vessel (ORV) for the 🇮🇳 @ncaor_goa Designed for polar navigation, in light ice conditions (first-year ice up to approximately 0.4–0.6 meters thick (Ice-1C)

Former 🇮🇳 #INSTaragiri (F41) Nilgiri-class frigate of the Indian Navy. Last #Taragiri was commissioned into the Navy on 16 May 1980 and was decommissioned on 27 June 2013, after serving 33 years in the Indian navy.

The United Nations has formally commended 🇮🇳⚓️Commander Mayank Sharma's actions. 2/2

🇮🇳Commander Mayank Sharma, Indian Navy, serving with the 🇺🇳United Nations in Somalia, displayed exceptional courage, professionalism, and leadership during an aircraft ditching incident near 🇸🇴Mogadishu on 10 Feb 2026. 1/2

Products of DPSUs succeed only when they serve the needs of Indian forces... on time. If 🇮🇳HAL Tejas program does not evolve— find an alternate engine OEM, or #ADA has to redesign the fuselage for a different engine— then the program will become irrelevant, like HAL HF-24 Marut.

Dramatic footage captures the aftermath of a successful strike by 🇺🇸U.S.A.F on an IRGC missile base in 🇮🇷 Baharestan, Isfahan, in 31 Mar 26. Post strike, the missile propellant stored underground kept burning for hours.