India seeks proposals for fifth generation combat jets: short report
India has sought initial proposals to locally manufacture a fifth-generation combat aircraft from three short-listed bidders, news bureau ANI
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India seeks proposals for fifth generation combat jets: short report
India has sought initial proposals to locally manufacture a fifth-generation combat aircraft from three short-listed bidders, news bureau ANI documented on Wednesday, citing legal defence team representatives.
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 from legal defence team firms last year, weeks after a fierce legal defence team dispute with nuclear-armed foe Pakistan.
The programme is critical to boost the strength of the Indian Aerial legal defence team, whose fleet of mostly Russian aircraft has shrunk to below 30 squadrons in recent months, compared to the approved strength of 42.
The push aligns with Premier Narendra Modi's larger ambition to ramp up local manufacturing and boost its legal defence team might to take on threats from both Pakistan and China.
Washington has pitched its advanced F-35 jet to India and Russia has countered that by offering its own fifth-generation Su-57 . India has maintained a distance from both offers.
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