Vector Technics has scaled its manufacturing capacity to 300,000 units annually, positioning itself as India’s largest fully integrated drone propulsion manufacturer and strengthening the country’s indigenous UAV ecosystem.
The Hyderabad-based company, a subsidiary of Zen Technologies, announced that its Shamshabad facility now supports end-to-end production of the complete propulsion stack, including BLDC motors, speed controllers, propellers, power electronics, IC engines and starter-generators.
The development marks a significant shift in India’s drone industry, which has historically relied on imported propulsion components. Vector Technics stated that its systems are built without Chinese parts or imported firmware, addressing critical supply chain and security concerns.
Unlike most domestic players that assemble imported components or focus on limited subsystems, Vector Technics designs and manufactures every element of the propulsion architecture in-house. This includes motor winding, firmware development, power electronics design, and the production of carbon-fibre reinforced propellers and UAV engines.
The move aligns with India’s IDDM (Indigenously Designed, Developed and Manufactured) framework, which places greater emphasis on supply chain transparency, domestic intellectual property and system-level reliability under operational conditions. The company emphasised that each unit is validated against NABL-accredited thrust benchmarks before delivery.
The complete propulsion stack: designed, developed and built in India:
● Electric motors — BLDC series spanning FPV-class, tactical, heavy-lift cargo, fixed-wing long-range and VTOL platforms. Aerospace-grade, tested to MIL-STD-810G.
● IC engines — 60cc, 170cc and 210cc boxer engines for hybrid-VTOL and fixed-wing UAVs. India’s only production-ready indigenous UAV engine line.
● Starter-generators — built on Vector’s BLDC core, delivering onboard power generation for endurance platforms.
● Speed controllers — designed in India, on trusted silicon, with domestically developed firmware.
● Propellers — carbon-fibre-reinforced polymer, aerodynamically tuned for industrial and defence conditions.
● Power electronics — distribution boards with onboard current sensing and voltage regulation; DC-DC converters for LiDAR, cameras and flight controllers.
Prudhvi Raj Pakalapati, Co-Founder and CEO of Vector Technics, said:
“A drone is only as indigenous as what drives it. For years, India built sophisticated platforms on propulsion it didn’t control—borrowed motors, borrowed firmware, a supply chain that could be cut. We spent seven years changing that, one component at a time: winding our own motors, writing our own firmware, machining our own engines. The IP lives in Hyderabad in this facility, in the engineers who chose to solve the problem here instead of importing the answer. We don’t promise indigenous propulsion. We prove it on three accredited benchmarks, before every unit ships. With scalable infrastructure, we’re not catching up. We’re setting the standard.”
The announcement underscores a broader shift toward self-reliance in critical drone technologies, with Vector Technics aiming to reduce external dependencies while enabling scalable, secure and mission-ready propulsion systems for defence and commercial applications.
