Partnership · AI & Deep Tech

FWDA partners Keydef to build drones in Portugal

By Startup Enthusiast · 30 September 2026

What they do

Flying Wedge Defence & Aerospace is a Bengaluru firm making autonomous drones for surveillance, air defence and farming

It signed a deal with Portugal's Keydef to build its Kaal Bhairav Lite and YAMA interceptor drones in Portugal

Keydef will put in an initial €6 million and help win NATO certification for the locally built systems

It builds military drones, including a heavy bomber-type unmanned aircraft, loitering munitions (drones that circle and strike a target) and a grenade-dropping drone.
Its main buyers are defence forces and security agencies; it also makes an agricultural drone for civilian use.
It earns money by selling drone systems and related services to these customers.
Its flagship FWD-200B is described as India's first home-built, medium-altitude, long-endurance combat drone.
The company is based in Bengaluru and employed about 93 people in May 2026, per a company profile site.
It is expanding abroad, with a drone-building partnership in Portugal.

Keydef (partner and investor) — Defence and aerospace arm of Portuguese firm Sketchpixel.