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This is an archive article published on March 8, 2024
Fifth-gen fighter AMCA project gets CCS nod
The AMCA will bring India among a select group of nations, which have developed a fifth-generation fighter. Only the US, Russia, and China have developed such advanced jets.
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According to the plans, the aircraft is slated to roll out of the hangar within three-and-a-half years of the approval and within a year after that it is slated to have its first flight. The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) has cleared the project to design and develop India’s fifth-generation fighter jet Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA).
The AMCA will bring India among a select group of nations, which have developed a fifth-generation fighter. Only the US, Russia, and China have developed such advanced jets.
The project is under the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) under the DRDO and it will be manufacturing the prototypes of the aircraft. The manufacturing agency will be Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.
The CCS approval for the project has been pending for at least a year and a half. The preliminary design review of the aircraft was over in 2022 itself.
According to the plans, the aircraft is slated to roll out of the hangar within three-and-a-half years of the approval and within a year after that it is slated to have its first flight. AMCA Mk1 will fly on the existing 90kN class engine (GE 414 engines from the US) and AMCA Mk2 will be powered by a stronger engine of 110kN to be developed indigenously by GTRE.
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