Hindustan Shipyard Partners With Cyient DLM to Build Indigenous Electronics for 18 Navy Vessels

State-run shipbuilder Hindustan Shipyard Limited entered an agreement with Cyient DLM to form a domestic joint venture focused on designing and manufacturing advanced naval electronics for Indian Navy warships.

Partners signed the Memorandum of Understanding to eliminate long-standing foreign dependencies in mission-critical maritime systems. While Indian shipyards assemble complex steel hulls at an accelerating rate, foreign vendors continue to dominate the high-value sensor suites, communication networks, and tactical computing arrays operating inside those platforms. This joint venture directly tackles that domestic technology deficit.

Targeting 18 Next Generation Fast Patrol Vessels

Under the roadmap, both companies will pool technical personnel to co-design and test prioritized systems before securing mandatory naval and classification qualifications. Initial deployment will equip 18 Next Generation Fast Patrol Vessels (NGFPVs) slated for maritime surveillance and security operations.

Systems earmarked for domestic development under the agreement cover core navigation, safety, and fleet integration hardware:

Slashing Refit Turnaround and Supply Chain Bottlenecks

Domestic manufacturing targets major operational headaches. Sourcing components overseas frequently stretches vessel refit timelines, bloats maintenance budgets, and leaves frontline surface combatants waiting months for foreign replacement parts. Producing sensor hardware domestically will compress procurement cycles, cut vessel life-cycle overhead, and generate direct contracting pipelines for domestic micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and maritime deep-tech suppliers.

Hindustan Shipyard Chairman and Managing Director R Adm C Raghuram (Retd) stressed that sovereign capability must extend deep into a warship's computing architecture.

Cyient DLM Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Rajendra Velagapudi noted that the venture creates sustained manufacturing depth within the country's industrial core.

Joint engineering teams from HSL and Cyient DLM will now finalize operational priority lists, launch prototype evaluations, and begin the formal qualification process required for combat vessel integration.