India Seeks Proposals for Fifth Generation Combat Jets, ANI Reports
The government will fully fund the ₹15,000 crore project as private firms prepare to build five prototypes and a structural test aircraft.
- On Wednesday, India's Ministry of Defence issued a Request for Proposal for its fifth-generation Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft programme to three shortlisted bidders: Larsen and Toubro-Bharat Electronics Limited, Tata Advanced Systems, and Bharat Forge-BEML.
- India's fighter squadron strength has shrunk to 29 from an approved 42, as the MiG-21 was retired in September and early variants of the MiG-29, Anglo-French Jaguar, and French Mirage 2000 face retirement in coming years, prompting the AMCA programme approved last year.
- Selected bidders have two to three months to submit detailed proposals for the Rs 15,000 crore prototype development, targeting 120 aircraft in the initial phase; the AMCA will feature a 55,000-foot operational ceiling and 1,500 kg internal weapons capacity.
- Excluding state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited marks a historic shift opening fighter jet manufacturing to private industry for the first time, with authorities projecting nearly 7,500 jobs from the initiative.
- India's first AMCA prototype is projected to fly between 2028 and 2032, with service induction after 2035, positioning India to join the United States, China, and Russia as fifth-generation fighter operators after rejecting foreign F-35 and Su-57 offers.
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Business RecorderIndia seeks proposals for fifth generation combat jets, ANI reports
India has sought initial proposals to locally manufacture a fifth-generation combat aircraft from three short-listed bidders, news agency ANI reported on Wednesday, citing defence officials. The bidders are Tata Advanced Systems, and joint ventures between Larsen and Toubro-Bharat Electronics and Bharat Forge-BEML — all of them Indian companies. India approved a programme to build the stealth fighter jets and invited interest for the same f…
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The Defence Ministry has issued a request for proposal for AMCA prototype development. The move puts three private consortiums in contention and deepens the push for indigenous defence manufacturing.
Defence Ministry seeks proposals from 3 shortlisted private firms for indigenous AMCA fighter jet
The Defence Ministry on Wednesday issued the Request for Proposal (RFP) for the ambitious indigenous Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) programme, marking a major step forward in India’s fifth-generation fighter jet project. According to Defence officials, the RFP has been sent to three shortlisted industry consortiums. These include the Larsen and Toubro-Bharat Electronics Limited group, Tata Advanced Systems, and the Bharat Forge-BEML cons…
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