A top Indian Army official said on Tuesday (September 23, 2025) that India’s proposed air defense system ‘Sudarshan Chakra’ would be the mother of all air defense systems and would include anti-drone, anti-UAV anti-UAVs and hypersonic anti-systems.
In his address on the subject of ‘anti-UAV and air defense systems: future of modern war’, Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, Head of Integrated Defense Staff, also said that the enemy has learned a lesson from ‘Operation Sindoor’ and hence we have to be two steps ahead in military thinking and plan.
Cheap drones harm expensive military properties
The event was attended by senior military officers, representatives of various defense industry companies and experts from the region. Air Marshal Dixit mentioned the recent Azerbaijan-Armenia struggle, the Russia-Ukraine War and how relatively cheap drones have played an important role in causing heavy damage to the expensive military properties of the other side.
The military official said that he has created a ‘innovation adaptation cycle’ and the work of Indian industry, think-tanks and academics should be ‘two steps ahead’ so that they can overtake the opponent, as it is like a ‘chess game’. He urged the defense industry that like ‘Make in India’, you have to start ‘Think in India’ and create ideas.
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Next time there will be a war with the enemy
In the context of ‘Operation Sindoor’, Air Marshal Dixit said that some drones that we had caught were the state -of -the -art, in which AI, visual means were used and even if we had jammed their GPS, they were able to reach somewhere. He said, ‘They are also working and getting better, so we have to move one step forward.’
However, Air Marshal Dixit said that it seems that our anti-drone and GPS-Jamming system has done good work, as the damage from these drones has been almost zero. He said that this is a ‘anti-drone success story’, but unfortunately, the same thing cannot be repeated next time, the system of the other side will also be strong, because they too have come to know about our abilities.
‘Sudarshan Chakra’ mother of air defense systems
In his address, Air Marshal Dixit also mentioned India’s hypocritical air defense system ‘Sudarshan Chakra’ and said that it would be the mother of all air defense systems in collaboration with some arms systems.
He said, ‘We are still in the phase of deliberations, but the anti-drone, the anti-UAV anti-hypersonic, all such things, and some other things, which cannot be talked about, is’ Mission Sudarshan Chakra’, including all of them. In a conversation with ‘PTI-Bhasha’ on the sidelines of the program, Air Marshal said, “This is in the stage of idea, but I can tell you that it will be omnipresent.”
Announcement of 10 year project
Principal Defense President (CDS) General Anil Chauhan said in his address in a seminar of the three forces in August that the proposed air defense system would act like ‘shield and sword’ and it would work on the lines of Israel’s iron dome air defense system, which is known as a highly effective missile armor. In his address of Independence Day this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 10 -year project in this regard.
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