New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- Across Ukraine, the Red Sea and the Indo-Pacific, the battlespace has become transparent, sensor-rich, contested by algorithms and dominated by drones, networked intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), and AI-enabled teaming. With the emergence of AI-enabled unmanned vehicles, sovereignty depends not just on deterrent hardware but on autonomous technology that can withstand the evolving threat landscape. In this environment, mission software, rather than platform size or even speed, determines survivability, lethality, coordination and strategic tempo. Here too, co-development is indispensable. The most advanced autonomy architectures now emerging globally follow a common design philosophy: protect the flig...