Mission Sudarshan Chakra is India's ambitious, indigenous, and multi-layered national security initiative aimed at creating a comprehensive defence shield by 2035. Announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in August 2025, the mission is designed to protect critical military and civilian infrastructure from various threats, including missiles, drones, and cyber attacks.
Modelled partly on Israel's "Iron Dome," the system is intended to provide both defensive and offensive capabilities, ensuring a robust response to enemy aggression.
Key Features and Objectives
- Multi-Layered Defence: The mission will integrate an overlapping network of early-warning and tracking sensors, command and control posts, and land/sea-based interceptor missiles.
- Indigenous Technology: A core principle is the complete indigenization of research, development, and manufacturing of the entire system, aligning with the Aatmanirbhar Bharat initiative.
- Integrated Systems: It will combine surveillance, cybersecurity, and air defence, linking existing systems like the Air Force's Integrated Air Command and Control System (IACCS) and the Army's Akashteer network.
- Comprehensive Protection: The security cover will extend to all critical and strategic locations, including sensitive defence facilities, nuclear installations, hospitals, railway hubs, and religious centers.
- Precision Strike Capability: Inspired by the mythological Sudarshan Chakra of Lord Krishna, the system aims to neutralise threats and enable swift, precise counter-strikes.
- Future Technologies: The plan includes integrating advanced technologies such as space assets (satellites), directed-energy weapons (DEWs), and AI algorithms for rapid target selection.
The project, spearheaded by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and involving private industry partners, represents a significant leap in India's national security infrastructure, aiming for self-reliance and strategic autonomy in the defence sector by the target year of 2035.
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