India’s Private Strategic Weapons Industrial Base

India’s strategic weapons industrial base has shifted structurally from a state monopoly to a distributed public–private ecosystem. A ₹2.45 lakh crore decadal addressable market (2026–2035) and DRDO’s Development-cum-Production Partner (DcPP) framework have pulled private primes to 24% of national defence production, with five industrial houses — L&T, Tata Advanced Systems, Kalyani, Adani and Solar — now holding end-to-end integration or critical prime sub-assembly capability. The transition is real but uneven: an 85–90% import dependency for terminal missile seekers and zero private-sector dynamic testing ranges remain the chokepoints that decide how much of the opportunity Indian industry captures. This 78-page report maps the capability matrix, the localisation-gap and value-chain structure, the industrial-corridor and geographic build-out, and three 2030–2035 scenarios — every exhibit carrying a [V] / [V1] / [Modelled] verification label.