India's DRDO is now helping Indian textile industries produce yarns to end its dependence on Chinese and other foreign clothing for military uniforms. There is a big use of technical textiles such as glass fabric, carbon fabric, aramid fabric, and advanced ceramic fabrics in defence application. For Indian army's summer uniform alone, the approximate requirement of the fabric is 55 lakh meters and if all the requirements of Navy, Air Force, and Para Military forces are added then the requirement may go well beyond 1.5 crore meters per annum, as per a report.