Get the inside story on India’s first indigenous fifth-generation stealth fighter jet—the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA). Designed by the Aeronautical Development Agency, the AMCA features cutting-edge stealth, AI-driven avionics, supercruise capability, and internal weapons bays. With its advanced design, this twin-engine jet will join the elite club of nations with next-gen fighters, standing alongside the US F-35, China’s J-20, and Russia’s Su-57. Discover how the AMCA will transform India’s air dominance, boost Make in India, and redefine the future of aerial combat.
11:12It features clipped diamond-like delta wings and an angular fuselage.
11:17Its top speed exceeds Mach 1.8 without afterburners.
11:21It carries 6 AIM-120 AM RAMs and 2 AIM-9 side-windor air-to-air missiles.
11:28For ground targets, it can internally carry 2,000-pound guided warm unit JADM bombs.
11:35Changdu J-20 Mighty Dragon from China has a development cost of 30 billion US dollars,
11:41or approximately 2.46 lakh crore rupees.
11:44It entered service in 2017.
11:46These stealth fighters represent the cutting-edge capabilities of their respective nations.
11:51The J-20 features a stealthy J-20 design with features that minimize its radar cross-section.
11:57It is equipped with an integrated avionics suit and a KLJ-5 active electronically scanned array radar.
12:04The J-20 can reach a top speed of approximately Mach 2, that is 2,470 km per hour.
12:12When you talk about the armament, the main weapons bake in-house up to 6 long-range missiles or bombs
12:18for both air-to-air and precision-guided munitions, side-base carrying short-range air-to-air missiles such as the PL-10E.
12:27Sukhoi Su-57 fill-on from Russia has a development cost of 15 billion US dollars, or approximately 1.23 lakh crore rupees.
12:37It entered service in 2020.
12:39Its features include twin-engine stealth multirole fighter with supercruise integrated avionics, active-phased array radar, and advanced flight control system.
12:49A powerful propulsion system equipped with AL-41F-1 augmented engines, which powers it to speeds of up to Mach 2.
12:57When you talk about the armaments, 4 beyond-visual-range missiles R-77M, 2 short-range missiles R-74M-2, anti-radiation missiles and precision-guided bombs,
13:07and KH-38M air-to-air ground missiles are included in it.
13:13The reason why India pulled out of the GFA is that India was supposed to be a financial partner.
13:21I don't really exactly know how much India was at its offhand, how much India committed to leave out the project,
13:27but also the technology development of the GFA was taking a long time.
13:32The GFA is nothing but the SV-57 now.
13:35The GFA is nothing but what is taken off the ground in terms of the SC-57.
13:45So, the reasons India pulled out could be many, financially it could be one of them.
13:53And the fact that Russia was taking a long time to get out of the technology.
13:57For example, the SC-57 is something called supercruise technology.
14:04Which means its engine can fly at supersonic speed without its afterburner.
14:09So, even now after like almost 50 years in development,
14:15Russians haven't yet got that second stage engine they call it,
14:19which allows the aircraft a supercruise.
14:21Supercruise means it can fly at a very high speed without its engine being detected.
14:26So, they are still yet to test that engine on this aircraft.
14:35I mean, some reports they have tested, but they haven't really installed it and then flown it for the world to see.
14:42You know, one of the air shows, they have shown the aircraft with a second stage engine,
14:47but actually they haven't really come out in public saying that yes, they have the engine and they are flying it fine,
14:55and the aircraft commits and does all the things it was originally supposed to do.
15:00The aircraft and the aircraft that would be possible through this aircraft are formed,
15:09and thes are based on from Korea or African- youngsters,
