India's defence ecosystem, mapped by service
Not a catalogue of equipment — a relationship-driven map of the industrial base behind it. Every platform is tied to its manufacturer, suppliers, subsystems, programmes, procurement stage, indigenisation status and foreign dependencies, in one graph shared across three service Atlases. A supplier that serves the Army, Navy and Air Force appears once, reachable from each. Draft policy is labelled draft; every current claim carries its primary source.
Choose a service to explore
Army Atlas
Armour, artillery, air defence, missiles, infantry systems, unmanned and counter-UAS, electronic warfare and C4ISR — the industrial base behind the land force.
Navy + Coast Guard Atlas
Warships and submarines, naval aviation and weapons, sonar and sensors, the shipyards that build them and the Coast Guard fleet — one maritime industrial base, filterable by service.
Air Force Atlas
Fighters and future combat aircraft, air-launched weapons, radar and avionics, and — decisively — the propulsion India does not yet own. Where each platform sits on the imported-to-indigenous ladder.
The industrial base beneath all three
Shared suppliers, procurement, indigenisation, strategic technologies and foreign dependencies — the layer only a single graph can show. Each links into the relevant Atlas.
PSUs, JVs and OEMs that serve more than one service — mapped once, not duplicated.
Cross-cutting capability layers — sensors, EW, propulsion, materials, comms — that recur across services.
Where strategic dependencies sit — only those the data marks critical are shown in red.
- critical LCA Tejas Mk1A · Engine S17
- critical LCA Tejas Mk2 · Propulsion S18
- high Project 17A / Nilgiri-class stealth frigate · Marine Propulsion
- high AESA radar technology · Electronics
- high Electronic warfare systems · Electronics
- high Advanced defence materials and superalloys · Materials
- high Naval sonar · Underwater Sensors
- high Counter-UAS · Counter Uas
Live acquisition programmes — AoN kept distinct from contract, production and delivery.
Positive Indigenisation Lists and the acquisition-policy framework (DAP 2026 is draft, not law).
Evidence-backed surfaces that recur across services.
- Layered low-cost detection, RF sensing, EO/IR, command-and-control and effectors are expanding as a recurring procurement need.
- The growing indigenous shipbuilding pipeline expands the addressable market for propulsion, power, sensors, combat systems, marine equipment and maintenance.
- Mro S18Growing indigenous aircraft and naval aviation fleets create long-duration demand for engine, sensor, weapon and airframe MRO.
Geographic industrial-cluster mapping (facility-level locations and MRO ecosystems) is a planned enrichment layer for this Atlas and is intentionally not shown until sourced — this database is evidence-led, not an inferred order of battle.