Historic Move As 3 Private Players In Race To Build India's Stealth Fighter | Read

In a landmark move for India's defence industry, the government today issued the request for proposal (RFP) for the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft, or AMCA, the country's first homegrown fifth-generation stealth fighter. For the first time in a major fighter jet programme, the Defence Ministry has kept out state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) and invited three private players: Tata Advanced Systems, the L&T-BEL-Dynamatic consortium, and the Bharat Forge-BEML-Data Patterns consortium. The Rs 15,000 crore project will see the winning private partner build five prototypes of the AMCA at a new greenfield facility in Andhra Pradesh. This is historic as it opens fighter jet manufacturing to the private sector in India and promises faster development. It also strengthens India's push for self-reliance in cutting-edge aerospace technology.