The Aerospace and Defence industry in India is vital for the country. With a strength of over 1.3 million active personnel, it is the world’s 3rd largest military force. The lack of a healthy domestic industrial base means the Indian military relies on imports, earning the dubious distinction of being the world’s largest arms importer.
At the Synergia Foundation we seek to facilitate impactful deliberation and action around India’s strategic requirements with respect to Aerospace and Defence (A&D) by drawing from the broadest cross-sections of industry. The organization has been working in the A&D space since 1998 and has partnered with global think tanks, academia and industry to better understand the surface area, and identify key challenges and opportunities in the sector.
“Aerospace is no longer simply designing an airframe with a box; our world is now about mechatronics, a multidisciplinary system combining mechanical engineering, electronics, computer engineering, telecommunications engineering, systems engineering, control engineering and more.”
- Stéphane Lauret | CEO, Safran India
Research Papers
Uncovering Trends in Security
The whole dynamic of security is changing in India. Rising inequality is going to develop into a crime epidemic, India – Pakistan relations are going to dramatically change in the next ...
Optimal Warfare
In 1980, when Alvin Toffler wrote The Third Wave, he said ‘Force base warfare will be transformed in the future into knowledge-based warfare.’ We saw this happen in the first...
Demystifying the Dragon
A lot is being made of China and for many years, India has put it on a pedestal. I don’t see the reason why. Being a military man, and specifically an air force man, I’ve always...