It is a matter of pride: India has started manufacturing of 5.5th generation stealth fighter jet, at par with ‘Trishakti’
India on the path of self-reliance
The biggest comfort that comes from the Ukraine war is that there is no one to help you during the war and if you have the strength, then only you can live with your head raised in this world. There are two enemies in India’s neighborhood and Pakistan is no less strategically and China is much more powerful than us. Therefore, India needs to strengthen its muscle power in time and the Modi government is also taking steps in this direction very fast. Indian aerospace company, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), has announced that it is starting the manufacturing process for India’s Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA).
DRDO is making fighter aircraft
India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and HAL have started manufacturing warplanes by cutting the first sheet metal while starting the aircraft manufacturing process. The AMCA aims to equip the Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy with a 5.5-generation twin-engine stealth fighter that will replace India’s older SEPECAT Jaguar and Dassault Mirage 2000 fighter jets, and its license-built Sukhoi Su-30MKI jets. is complementary. According to the report, the fighter jet that India is building has been designed with the aim of attacking the ground from the sky, hitting enemy air defense areas, electronic warfare tasks as well as fulfilling many more purposes. He is going. This warplane is being designed for the air defense of the enemy as well as destroying the important targets and carrying out a fierce attack.
Fighter aircraft will be very powerful
According to the report, many more technologies have been included in the fighter jet that DRDO is building. For example, supercruise technology, diverter-less supersonic intake, advanced avionics and artificial technology are also being used in fighter jets. The fighter jet is envisaged to be equipped with a 20 tonne weight in the baseline stealth configuration, which will have a capacity to carry around 1.5 tonne of warheads along with its armament.
It will be difficult for radar to detect
At the same time, in a report by ABV News, Project Manager Ravi Yadav had said that, ‘The body of the stealth fighter jet is designed with special materials, due to which when the enemy country’s radars try to detect it, its The wave after hitting the body does not go back. That is, its body absorbs the waves, due to which stealth fighter jets are not able to detect radar. Along with this, the aircraft has the capacity to carry five tons of fuel and weapons. At the same time, the AMCA will also have three-dimensional thrust vectoring and an indigenously manufactured Active Electronic Scan Array (AESA) radar.
Will be able to execute dangerous mission
AMCA director AK Ghosh, while talking to a news portal, said that this fighter jet is a fighter aircraft of the fifth generation, which is being manufactured in India and so far only America, Russia and China have produced the fifth generation. Succeeded in making aircraft. Along with this, there is a plan to make this fighter jet autonomous, that is, this fighter jet can be flown without the help of a pilot, which will be able to attack enemies in a very dangerous way. It is called the 5.5 generation aircraft, which has the ability to destroy the enemy’s hideout without a pilot.
Planning to involve the private sector as well
While HAL and India’s Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) oversee the design of the AMCA, India now plans to involve the private sector to reduce development and production costs. ADA has been working on the AMCA since 2009, with the first prototype to be completed by 2024, and its first flight planned for 2025. India’s 5th generation fighter project may be driven by the imperative to compete on a par with China and maintain technological superiority over Pakistan and strengthen its strategic autonomy over key military technologies.
China claims to be fifth generation aircraft
Currently, China claims to be operating the J-20 and FC-31 5th generation stealth fighters, which can be used against India in their border disputes in the Himalayas. In contrast, the best fighter jets that India currently has are the Vivo Rafale, a 4.5-generation French-made Rafale, and the license-built 4+ generation Russian Su-30MKI jets. And when India will build the 5.5 generation fighter jet, then it will be fully ready to challenge China. While the capabilities of China’s 5th generation fighter jets are still unknown, the generation gap between them and India’s current fighter jets could put India at a disadvantage in an aerial conflict over the Himalayas.
Pakistan’s capability in India’s attention
India’s AMCA also aims to balance Pakistan’s 5th generation fighter program, which it is trying to build in collaboration with Turkey. India’s AMCA, with its new Rafale acquisition, could provide a qualitative edge over Pakistan’s older F-16s, JF-17s, J-10Cs, Dassault Mirage IIIs, Dassault Mirage 5s and Chengdu F-7PGs. In addition, the AMCA program enhances India’s strategic autonomy over critical military technologies and hardware by providing impetus to its domestic aerospace industry.
