New Delhi [India], September 30 (ANI): Addressing Aero Tech India 2025 organised by FICCI in partnership with CAPSS, Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Awadhesh Kumar Bharti, SYSM AVSM VM, told industry leaders and policymakers that even 99 per cent indigenous content was insufficient if critical components remained import-dependent.

"If the supplies of those critical components are choked, we will not be able to ramp up production when needed," Bharti said, encouraging manufacturers to achieve 100 per cent indigenisation within defined timeframes.

"We need to put our innovation on afterburner. This cruise setting will not do," Air Marshall Bharti declared, criticising delays in moving from conceptualisation to operationalisation.

Air Marshal Bharti presented a detailed framewor

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