List of weapons that India can make at home — and the ones it cannot

• Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Larsen and Turbo (L&T) have the most to gain from the Indian government’s ban on the import of defence items.
  
• The Dhruv multirole helicopter, INS Vikrant aircraft carrier and submarines are something India is already producing at home.
  
• What remains to be seen is if home-grown companies will be able to bridge the gap between the technology they have and what international peers had to offer.
  
• Here’s a full list of items that India’s defence sector can get from local companies, and what it has had to import from abroad.

India’s import ban on 101 defence items is a boon for the domestic manufacturing industry. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh estimates that contracts worth nearly ₹4 lakh will flow towards local companies within the next six to seven years.

There are some big-ticket items that the defence manufacturing industry is already making at home. With the import ban, these companies will now be gearing up to fill the hole left behind by foreign manufacturers.

Even though the ban will play out in a phased manner with a deadline of December 2025, around 69 categories of defence equipment will be off the market for import starting December this year. This includes several types of warships, light transport aircraft, light combat fighter aircraft, light combat helicopters and ground transport vehicles, among other things.

Here’s a full list of defence weapons and equipment that India can make at home — and what it needed to import so far: