Bharat Forge Turns Focus To AI-Driven Defence Technologies: Baba Kalyani

Speaking to Nitin A. Gokhale in the special series “On the shop Floor”, Baba Kalyani underscored India's potential to emerge as a major defence manufacturing and export hub capable of supplying defence systems globally

Bharat Forge, an Indian automotive forging multinational (MNC), is strategically shifting its focus to an AI-driven defence division to establish it as the company’s core vertical. Under the visionary leadership of Baba Kalyani, Chairman and Managing Director, Bharat Forge is not just pursuing digitisation but is aggressively pushing the boundaries of innovation within this domain. Kalyani shared the company’s ambitious aspirations exclusively with Nitin Gokhale, Editor-in-Chief of BharatShakti, stating, “We are not just doing R&D, we are pioneering it. We have invested heavily, around 700-800 crores since 2011, to develop new products. Everything we do in our company is based on developing technology through our own innovation and our own know-how”. He asserted that from big guns – advanced towed artillery gun systems (ATAGS) to anti-tank guided missiles to ammunitions to small arms space, all segments are now digital and artificial intelligence-driven.

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