India designs aircraft and drones and imports most of the engines that power them.

Gas turbines are among the hardest machines in engineering to build well.

They run hot, spin fast, and have to hold tolerances for thousands of hours without failing.

The global supplier list is short, and the dependency has shaped what Indian aerospace can and cannot do on its own.

was founded in Bengaluru in 2023 to work on the small end of that problem.