ideaForge Technology

ideaForge Technology is a drone manufacturer founded in 2007 in Navi Mumbai, India, by IIT Bombay alumni Ankit Mehta, Rahul Singh and Ashish Bhat, and is listed on India’s stock exchanges. The company builds unmanned aircraft systems for defense, enterprise surveying, disaster response and agriculture, with customer fleets that have together logged over one million flights.

The product range spans the NETRA and SWITCH surveillance and reconnaissance drones, the Q4i and Q6 series for security and mapping, and the ZOLT platform, built on VTOL fixed-wing airframe technology the company has developed since 2009. These systems are used by defense forces, law-enforcement agencies and civilian operators for aerial surveillance, mapping and monitoring.

1. NETRA series: portable VTOL surveillance drones for security and reconnaissance missions.

2. SWITCH: VTOL fixed-wing UAV combining long endurance with vertical take-off and landing.

3. Q4i and Q6: drone platforms built for security monitoring and aerial mapping.

4. ZOLT platform: additional UAV platform extending the surveillance product line.

5. VTOL airframe technology: proprietary fixed-wing VTOL design developed since 2009.

6. Multi-sector use: fleets deployed across defense, agriculture, mapping and disaster response.