The Drone Dependency Trap
India loves to announce its arrival as a drone power. Strip away the airframe debate and a harder question remains: are we building drones, or assembling them?
AI & Defence
1 published · 1 upcomingHuman-Machine Teaming in Autonomous Defence Systems
Engineering and legal frameworks for meaningful human control in AI-assisted engagement systems, why operator authority is both a safety requirement and a design constraint.
When the Sky Became a Data Problem
How AI is reshaping air defence, and why drone, UAV, and systems engineers need to be in this conversation right now.
Drones / Counter-UAS
2 publishedThe Flight of a Drone and the Hidden Cost of the Kill Chain
A drone mission is a chain, not an aircraft. Tracing it from preparation to post-strike exploitation shows where vulnerabilities really lie, why air defences leak, and why a hit, an interception or a viral video says little about whether the effort was worth it.
Counter-UAS Sensor Fusion Architecture
How multi-modal sensor arrays detect drone swarms in urban battlespace, and integrate into modern air defence networks.
Electronic Warfare
1 published · 1 upcomingRadome Design for EW Conformal Applications
Material selection, electromagnetic transparency, and structural integration challenges in designing conformal radomes for modern airborne electronic warfare systems.
Unjammable Drones: A Marketing Myth, Not a Military Reality
Why claims of jam-proof autonomy and anti-jamming mastery collapse under exposure to real adversarial electronic warfare conditions, and what thinking operators do instead.
Military Strategy
2 publishedCan India's Defence-Industrial Base Survive a Global Missile War?
The Gulf war of 2026 has emptied the world's interceptor stocks and left even wealthy allies like Saudi Arabia stranded. For Indian manufacturers, that shortage is the biggest opening in a generation to enter defence as Tier 2 and Tier 3 suppliers.
The Lesson That Was Never Learnt
Every war begins with a promise to teach the other side a lesson. Every ceasefire ends with both sides claiming they did. Neither claim is usually tested.
Military Psychology
1 publishedIndigenisation & Policy
5 publishedDAP 2026 vs DAP 2020: What Changes for Indian Industry
The draft Defence Acquisition Procedure 2026 moves the goalposts from "Made in India" to "Owned by India". We compared the draft clause by clause with DAP 2020: categories, indigenous content, indigenous design, offsets, Make, iDEX and the new procedures, and what each change means for start-ups, MSMEs, Indian OEMs and foreign OEMs.
The Arsenal Behind the Arsenal Why Nations Need the Capacity to Manufacture War
The decisive question in a prolonged war may not be who has the best weapon, but who can manufacture enough of it, fast enough, for long enough.
The Drone Dependency Trap
India loves to announce its arrival as a drone power. Strip away the airframe debate and a harder question remains: are we building drones, or assembling them?
India's Defence Startups: Big Promise, Hard Reality
The opportunity is real. So are the challenges. A candid assessment of what it actually takes to build a defence company in India, from someone who has seen both sides of the table.
We're Building Weapons We Can't Fix in a War
India's defence indigenisation story has a serious gap between the narrative and the reality. Assembly is not sovereignty, and confusing the two is becoming a strategic liability.
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