Garuda Aerospace plans defence drone facility in Chennai, supporting Aatmanirbhar Bharat

Drone manufacturer Garuda Aerospace has planned to establish a dedicated Defence Drone facility in the city, giving a fillip to the Centre's 'Make in India' campaign. During his interaction with Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi recently, Garuda Aerospace founder-CEO Agnishwer Jayaprakash discussed a new dedicated defence drone facility in Chennai with state-of-the-art drone design, manufacturing and testing facilities as advised by HAL and BEML.

The proposed facility would house the manufacturing capabilities for indigenous drone subsystem development and local manufacturing of critical components such as drone motors, batteries and transmitters. Garuda Aerospace is looking to develop drones with ISR capabilities besides swarm drones, tethered drones and underwater drones, a company statement said on Saturday.