by Sebastien Roblin
In 2008, India’s Aeronautical Development Agency began developing a multi-role fighter to replace its large fleet of aging Jaguar, Mirage and MiG-23 fighters. The new project was tentatively dubbed the Medium Combat Aircraft — later revised to the Advanced MCA, or AMCA — to be produced domestically by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.
Shortly afterwards, the Indian Air Force put in a serious addendum to the program — they wanted AMCA to be a stealth fighter, too.
For a while the AMCA project slowed down, as India invested $5 billion in the Russian Sukhoi PAK FA stealth fighter, intending to produce its own version called the FGFA. But then the PAK FA program began to suffer major setback, eliciting numerous complaints from the Indian military.
Now, even Russia has only ordered production of 12 of the supermaneuverable stealth aircraft, and the future of the FGFA is unclear.
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