Air power · India
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.
Systems & platforms
17
mapped with lifecycle & origin
Industry entities
10
PSUs, JVs, private & foreign OEMs
Programmes
4
procurement, policy & indigenisation
Dependencies
6
scored industrial/technology gaps
Indigenous share
53%
of systems, by design origin
The decisive gap · Propulsion
Aircraft engines remain India's highest-value strategic industrial gap. A platform assembled in India is not sovereign while its engine is imported — this Atlas keeps the two separate.
GE AerospaceImported
Military propulsionMixed Indian + foreign
Military turbofan enginesMixed Indian + foreign
SafranImported
Indigenisation ladder
Indigenous (Indian design)6
Indigenous subsystem3
Licensed / assembled in India6
Technology-transfer pathway1
Imported1
Classified from country of origin. A platform built in India from a foreign design is shown as licensed/assembled — not indigenous.
Procurement & lifecycle pipeline
- Operational6
- Development6
- AoN (Acceptance of Necessity)5
- Tracked1
- In production1
- Policy1
- Contracted1
Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) is kept distinct from a signed contract — an AoN is a demand approval, not an order.
Capability domains · 15
Emerging industrial opportunities · 4
- Layered low-cost detection, RF sensing, EO/IR, command-and-control and effectors are expanding as a recurring procurement need.
- Avionics S17LCA Mk1A localisation demonstrates a widening Indian avionics/content base, but advanced sensors and mission systems remain a strategic growth area.
- Aircraft engine dependence remains one of the highest-value strategic industrial gaps; future manufacturing and technology-transfer pathways are therefore high-priority.
- Mro S18Growing indigenous aircraft and naval aviation fleets create long-duration demand for engine, sensor, weapon and airframe MRO.
One graph, not three directories. Every system, company and programme is a node in a single relationship-driven database — a supplier that serves the Army, Navy and Air Force appears once and is reached from each. Facts carry their primary source; draft policy (e.g. DAP 2026) is labelled as draft, not law. Methodology
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Capability domains (15)
Fighter 7Air Defence 3Aircraft Engine 2Propulsion 2Air To Air Missile 1Air To Surface 1Anti Radiation 1Communications 1Counter Uas 1Electronic Warfare 1High Altitude Pseudo Satellite 1Materials 1Precision Strike 1Radar 1Sensors 1
Systems & platforms (17)
Air-Ship Based High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (AS-HAPS)Akash Weapon SystemAMCAAstra air-to-air missile familyGE F404-GE-IN20 engine for LCA Mk1AGE F414 / India manufacturing pathwayLCA Tejas Mk1ALCA Tejas Mk2Mirage 2000MRSAMMulti Role Fighter Aircraft (MRFA) / RafaleRafaleRudraM-IISu-30MKITARA Glide WeaponUTTAM AESA RadarVSHORADS
Industry (10)
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