ideaForge Technology Limited has crossed a major milestone, recording over one million successful UAV flights across defence, homeland security, public safety, mapping, surveying, and industrial applications. The achievement reflects the company’s growing role in enabling critical missions at scale, supporting faster decision-making, strengthening national security, and protecting lives and infrastructure.
The milestone highlights the operational reliability, resilience, and autonomy of ideaForge’s UAV platforms, which are widely deployed by the Indian Armed Forces, government agencies, public sector organisations, and private enterprises in demanding environments.
Vipul Joshi, CFO & Whole-Time Director, ideaForge Technology Limited, said, “One million flights is a proud milestone, but for us, it is much more than just a number. It is a record of trust built one mission at a time.
From the first ideaForge flight to one million sorties, our platforms have operated across some of the world’s most demanding terrains and harshest environmental & field conditions. Every flight has carried a purpose: to help our customers see farther, respond faster, protect lives, improve productivity, and complete missions where reliability cannot be negotiable.
While the journey to our first million flights has been built over years of innovation, customer education, tech adoption, and operational deployment, we are confident that the next million will come much faster. As unmanned systems become integral to defence, homeland security, industrial inspection, and critical infrastructure, we expect our platforms to undertake a far wider range of missions than ever before and much more frequently. Building on the foundation of proven ISR capabilities, we are expanding into new domains, including combat drone and logistics capabilities and increasingly autonomous and resilient systems, to address the evolving needs of modern operations.”
“For ideaForge, one million flights also mean one million opportunities to learn. Every sortie has helped us understand edge cases & real-world performance better, strengthen reliability, improve resilience, and build systems that are more capable of operating in complex and contested environments.”
Founded as a student project at IIT Bombay, ideaForge evolved into a key player in India’s UAV ecosystem following the lessons from the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which highlighted the need for indigenous aerial surveillance capabilities.
Today, the company has filed over 100 patents globally, with platforms certified by Indian authorities and recognised internationally, including by NATO. Its UAV systems are designed to operate in extreme conditions, from high-altitude cold regions to hot desert and coastal environments.
Over the years, ideaForge UAVs have supported a wide range of missions. They have assisted disaster response teams during floods, enabled crowd management during large public gatherings such as the Pandharpur Yatra and Kanwar Yatra, helped mitigate human-wildlife conflict, monitored critical infrastructure, played a crucial role in one of the world’s largest mapping missions carried out under the SVAMITVA Scheme, helped municipal corporations and public administrations for smart governance, augmented law enforcement agencies’ capabilities for enhanced public safety, and supported security forces for counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations, including missions like Operation Sindoor.
As demand for unmanned systems continues to grow, ideaForge is expanding its portfolio beyond intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) into logistics support, long-endurance surveillance, combat capabilities, and next-generation autonomous systems.
