India continued to accelerate strategic positioning as defence exports reached nearly ₹23,622 crore, reflecting concrete momentum shift from historic net import orientation toward systematic manufacturing scale up and higher complexity domestic capability plays. Market strategists indicated that such export acceleration provides multi channel benefits including domestic industrial deepening, value chain retention, higher productivity spillovers and stronger diplomatic alignment leverage across technology transfer channels. Defence economists observed this is a critical structural marker demonstrating that India is increasingly transitioning toward higher tier defence production ecosystem maturity instead of legacy build to buy patterns.