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India indispensable make a robust ecosystem for drone manufacturing, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said connected Thursday (March 19, 2026), highlighting lessons from the Russia-Ukraine and Iran-Israel conflicts.
Addressing the National Defence Industries Conclave, Mr. Singh said the 2 conflicts demonstrated the value of drones and counter-drone technologies.
"As the full satellite watches the ongoing struggle involving Russia and Ukraine, on with Iran-Israel, we tin intelligibly spot the highly important relation of drones and counter-drone technologies successful aboriginal warfare," helium said.
"Today, determination is simply a request to physique specified a drone manufacturing ecosystem successful India successful which we are wholly self-reliant," helium said.
The conclave was attended by apical executives of starring home defence manufacturing firms arsenic good arsenic officials of defence nationalist assemblage undertakings.
"For India's defence preparedness and strategical autonomy, it is indispensable that India becomes afloat self-reliant successful drone manufacturing," Mr. Singh said.
The Defence Minister besides touched upon the increasing value of artificial intelligence, robotics and different caller and captious technologies.
"In today's era, innovations specified arsenic automation, artificial quality and robotics are transforming manufacturing crossed the world. Alongside these, simulation exertion is besides opening up caller possibilities," helium said.
Mr. Singh besides called upon manufacture leaders to absorption connected improving the prime of their products.
"This self-reliance is indispensable not lone astatine the merchandise level but besides astatine the constituent level. That is, from the drone's mould to the software, motor and batteries, each should beryllium made successful India," helium said.
"This task is not casual due to the fact that successful astir countries wherever drones are made, galore captious components are imported from a circumstantial country," helium added.
