The competition to produce India’s ambitious 5th-generation fighter jet, the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), has intensified with a Larsen & Toubro (L&T) -led consortium formally expressing interest in the programme.

This marks the first time a private sector-led consortium — outside of the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) — has entered the race to develop and manufacture a platform conceived by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) .

L&T has partnered with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), a public sector electronics giant, to jointly respond to the Expression of Interest (EoI) issued by the Ministry of Defence’s Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) for the AMCA programme.

The deadline for submitting bids for India’s AMCA project’s Full-Sc

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