India, May 29 -- India is aspiring to make a stealth bomber - its most audacious defence project to date - a move that signals a technological coming-of-age

If all goes as per the plan, by 2032 India would join the select club of three countries - the USA, China and Russia - that have fifth-generation stealth multirole fighters. The Ministry of Defence has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) to three shortlisted private-sector consortia for the development and production of five prototypes of India's fifth-generation stealth fighter, the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), under a Rs 15,000-crore project. For a nation long dependent on foreign suppliers for frontline combat aircraft, this is a watershed moment. But the country will h...