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Zuppa delivers over 500 Ajeet drones to Army
By Startup Enthusiast ·
- Date
- Company
- Zuppa
- What it does
- Ajeet drone deliveries
- Kind
- News
- Based in
- Chennai
- Founded
- 2008
What they do
Zuppa has handed over more than 500 drones from its Ajeet series to the Indian Army in about three months
What happened
The deliveries followed certification and testing by the government's STQC quality directorate
Why it matters
The company stresses that the drones are cyber-secure and built for electronic-warfare-heavy battlefields
The details
- Over 500 Ajeet drones were delivered by April 2026.
- Deliveries took roughly three months.
- They cleared STQC (a government testing and certification body) checks first.
- Made and designed in India.
About Zuppa
- Product
- Cyber-secure drones, autopilots, and autonomous navigation systems
- Customers
- The Indian Armed Forces, defense agencies, and commercial enterprises requiring secure unmanned systems
- How it makes money
- Designs, manufactures, and sells indigenous cyber-secure drones, autopilot hardware, and navigation software
- What sets it apart
- Offers entirely homegrown, cyber-secure autopilot and navigation systems that operate without Chinese parts and function in GPS-denied environments
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