Who builds what India still buys?
A long-range precision strike system that finds its own way without GPS. Not a drone. Built privately, in India.
What an adversary takes first
Satellite positioning. Then the link.
Almost everything built to work at range leans on both. Each one is a bet on the enemy's restraint.
A door that opened late
India still imports this class of capability. For decades the capital, the clearances and the precedent all pointed to the state.
Then defence opened to startups, and indigenous sourcing became policy. The ground changed. Very few have walked it yet.
It leaves with everything it needs
A high-speed autonomous standoff system. After launch there is no pilot, no link and no reliance on satellites.
The engagement is human-authorised: a person sets the options and gives the order to launch. After that, every choice is its own, made only from what it was given.
The part we do not publish
Several independent sensing modes, fused on board, so that nothing an adversary can jam on its own brings the navigation down.
How they are fused, and what keeps the navigation honest under denial, is the reason the company exists.
What the customer is really buying
Not range. Not speed. Arrival.
Predominantly passive, with emissions kept minimal and tightly managed, it is far harder to detect, jam or trace. For the customer, that difference is counted in how many have to be sent.
Proof, in the order it has to come
- October 2026. The shape is proven.
- 2027. It flies.
- 2028. It finds its way.
- 2028. The target: a nation signs.
Judged after the fact
In this domain there is one standard: it works, or it does not. There is no third answer, and we are not looking for one.
The discipline comes from motorsport. The domain is harder.
I am not building a concept to sell.
Arjun Kaushal, founder
About the founderIn plain terms
Five questions, answered.
- Why we are doing this
Because the first things an adversary takes are satellite positioning and the radio link.
Most systems built to work at range depend on one or both, and India still imports much of this class of capability. Defence has opened to private companies. We are building it here.
- What we are aiming at
A long-range precision strike system, designed and built in India.
The targets, in order: the shape proven in October 2026, flight in 2027, navigation without satellites in 2028, and a first contract in 2028.
- How it is different
After launch it needs nothing from anyone.
No pilot, no radio link, no GPS: far less for an adversary to cut, jam or trace. It is built to stay predominantly passive.
- Where the innovation sits
In the navigation.
It holds its course without satellites or a link, on multi-modal sensing fused on board, so that nothing an adversary can jam on its own brings the navigation down. How that fusion works is the part we do not publish.
- Why us
Held to the standard a stopwatch teaches: it works, or it does not.
- Founder
- Motorsport discipline
- Aerodynamics
- Being proven with an Institute of National Importance
- Advisory
- The institute, and a senior technologist from research and industry