Mumbai: India’s most ambitious defence dream is taking shape. A fifth-generation stealth fighter aircraft is finally being built to rival the world’s most advanced warplanes. So far, only three other nations have achieved this milestone. The United States operates the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II, China has the Chengdu J-20 and Russia fields the Sukhoi Su-57. India’s Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) will soon join this elite club.

A Larsen & Toubro-Bharat Electronics Limited (L&T-BEL) consortium, which is leading the AMCA project, has joined hands with Dynamatic Technologies Limited (DTL) as its exclusive partner for the advanced combat aircraft programme.

The tie-up is a step in India’s journey to design and manufacture a stealth-capable, supersonic fighter aircraft with co

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