*New Delhi:* After having failed to produce LCA Tejas, Indian Air ForceChief boasts of indigenous 5th generation fighter jet for India.
IAF chief RKS Bhadauria on Tuesday said that the defence research agencyDRDO should make the indigenous fifth-generation fighter aircraft happenand it must succeed. India has failed in mass production of Light CombatAircraft Tejas which is in development phase even after three decades.
“The Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) must succeed and it needs a lotof attention… it has taken off, it is a DRDO project.
In terms of technology, this is one project where DRDO must make ithappen,” the IAF chief said while addressing the Defence Research andDevelopment Organisation (DRDO) Director’s Conference.
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Asserting that the Indian Air Force wants to control the technology andother aspects of the programme, he said, “I am defining the technology ofAMCA because it is where we lack.
When we take a system from abroad, we get restricted by the technology andweapon available and there is a 10-year cycle if we have to change it. InAMCA, we want to have control.”
