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Recently, South Korea purchased the first batch of the new national fighter KF-21 Boramae. A project to create its own KAAN combat aircraft is nearing completion in Turkey. Against this background, India is noticeably lagging behind, trying to develop the 5th generation AMCA fighter, which has not yet been implemented "in hardware".
As explained in the publication India Defense, failures and delays in the Indian program are due to a bet on domestic developments:
It is indicated that American companies such as Raytheon and Northrop Grumman made a significant contribution to the creation of the KF-21. The Turkish KAAN program benefited from the help of British BAE Systems and American firms.
- the publication believes.
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It is noted that this is why India went its own way when creating the fighter. New Delhi, rejecting potentially profitable partnerships, is striving to provide more than 70% localization for the planned production of the aircraft.
- the publication says.
Against the background of the success of South Korean and Turkish programs, the developer of AMCA, the DRDO organization [an approximate analogue of Rostec], gave his comment, "explaining" the slow pace of work: