Hyderabad-based Veera Dynamics, Binford Labs team up to build stealth drones for Indian Navy
Veera Dynamics launched Project RAMA, a stealth material that reduces radar and thermal visibility. In partnership with Binford Labs, the material will be integrated into autonomous drones, enhancing their ability to operate covertly in contested military zones.
Hyderabad: Veera Dynamics, a defense technology company based in Hyderabad and futuristic combat technology development partner of Indian Navy has announced the launch of Project RAMA (Radar Absorption & Multispectral Adaptive), a next-generation stealth material engineered to reduce platform visibility across both radar and infrared spectrums.
Designed as a modular, platform-agnostic coating, RAMA offers a major leap in survivability across land, air, and sea domains. Project RAMA significantly reduces radar cross-section and thermal signatures, compressing the adversary’s detect-to-engage window to near-zero. The material can be applied to a wide range of platforms, including unmanned systems, naval vessels, and manned aircraft, to enable low-observability operations in modern threat environments, a company press release disclosed on Wednesday.
“RAMA represents our vision of platform-wide invisibility,” said Veera Dynamics CEO Sai Teja Peddineni. “It’s not just a material—it’s a strategic capability for future warfare.”
To take this capability to the field, Veera partnered with Binford Research Labs, a defense company based in Hyderabad. Binford builds autonomous drones capable of operating in RF- and GPS-denied environments. Binford has won three IDEX awards from India’s Ministry of Defence and has supplied multiple drone platforms already in use in active military operations, the company also has multiple ongoing projects with Army, Navy and Air Force.
Integrating Project RAMA into Binford’s drones enhances their ability to carry out covert, high-risk missions in contested zones. The combination of RAMA’s multispectral stealth with Binford’s autonomy stack is aimed at delivering a new generation of unmanned aerial systems optimized for survivability, precision, and mission adaptability.
The joint venture is also focused on scaling production of attritable, dispensable stealth drones, aligned with India’s growing need for mass-deployable unmanned systems that can perform in high-threat environments while maintaining operational surprise, the press release added.
