India’s Marine Gas Turbine Bet: The Most Important Line Hidden Inside the ₹1.1 Lakh Crore DAC Package

The most consequential line in the Defence Acquisition Council’s ₹1.1 lakh crore package is not a vehicle, helicopter or radar. It is the quiet approval to design and develop marine gas turbines. If India can move from importing propulsion systems to designing, testing, producing and overhauling them at home, it will remove one of the least visible—and most important—foreign dependencies in its surface fleet.