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What if India was completely self-reliant for sovereign defence?

An Indian defence startup building AI-powered anti-drone systems has won over INR 120 Cr in orders from the Ministry of Defence within a year of inception.

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Antler India

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October 14, 2026

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India recorded more than 400 rogue drone incursions last year, and recent conflict made the lesson impossible to miss. The wars of the future will be fought by cheap machines in large numbers, and won in software. 

Few people understand what a drone can do better than Amardeep. An IIT Bombay aerospace engineer with sixteen years in frontier technology, he was on the founding team of ideaForge, the company that built India's drone industry and became the first drone maker to list on an Indian exchange. Time in the field along India's contested borders showed him the other side: what a drone can do in the wrong hands.

Armory builds the shield against modern warfare, starting with drones. Its AI-powered, modular systems pick up a hostile drone by its radio signal, track it on radar and jam it out of the sky, from handheld guns to fixed installations.

India's Ministry of Defence has already awarded Armory with orders worth over INR 120 Cr within a year of inception. Each anti-drone system is designed, tested and manufactured in-house, in India. Imagine, a nation with long, contested borders protecting its soldiers, cities and critical infrastructure with technology it owns outright. Sovereignty in its most literal form.

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Amardeep Singh, Founder & CEO

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