Who defends India against drones?
A living map of India's counter-drone ecosystem — 60 C-UAS systems, 43 manufacturers, ₹374 crore of procurement and 50 deployments, mapped across the detect-to-defeat kill chain with their components and import dependencies. The companion to the Drone Atlas, and the free surface of our unmanned-warfare research.
India's counter-drone build-out — the systems, sensors and effectors defending against the drone threat that Op Sindoor made urgent. 60 systems from 43 makers, 66% average indigenous content on Indian systems, deployed across 12+ states. The companion to the Drone Atlas.
Counter-UAS is one of the fastest-moving areas of Indian defence procurement. The deep-dive analysis sits in our unmanned-warfare research.
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What counter-drone (C-UAS) systems does India have?
The Atlas tracks 60 counter-UAS systems, of which 24 are Indian-made — from BEL, DRDO, Zen Technologies, Big Bang Boom and others — filterable by class, mobility and the drone types they counter.
How much has India spent on counter-UAS procurement?
Disclosed contracts total ₹374 crore across 50 known deployments, led by the Army, Air Force and paramilitary — a market that accelerated sharply after Operation Sindoor.
How does a counter-drone system work?
Through a kill chain: detect (radar, RF, EO/IR, acoustic), track, identify, then defeat the drone by soft-kill (RF jamming / GNSS spoofing), hard-kill (kinetic), directed energy (laser/microwave), or an interceptor drone. The Kill Chain tab breaks down each layer.
Which companies make counter-UAS systems in India?
43 manufacturers are tracked; the Indian leaders are BEL and DRDO, with Zen Technologies, Big Bang Boom Solutions, Grene Robotics, Adani and Paras among the growing private field.
What are the import dependencies in Indian counter-UAS?
6 components are rated Critical import dependencies — chiefly AESA radar GaN T/R modules, FPGAs and AI processors — the same semiconductor chokepoints that run through the rest of the Atlas.
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