India, July 7 -- Jags Kandasamy, the founder of US-based defence tech company LatentAI, sat down with HT for an interview on India's defence tech ecosystem and the use of AI in modern warfare. Kandasamy - who is partnering with Indian firms to win Indian defence contracts - highlights the bureaucratic and procedural challenges that make it difficult for global tech firms to work with India. He pointed to China's progress on deploying AI for defence purposes and argues that India needs to leapfrog ahead in defence technologies.

Q. What sort of projects do you intend to work on for the Indian military?

So let me give you an example. At this year's Aero India, I met with a colonel in the Indian Army and he was demonstrating an indigenous c...