AMCA's Binding Constraint Is the Engine: Reliance and Rolls-Royce Put Propulsion on the Industrial Path

Airframe headlines do not deliver fifth-generation sovereignty. Reporting on a Reliance Industries–Rolls-Royce partnership to design, develop, manufacture, test and produce an indigenous engine for India's Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft—and to build an Aerospace Gas Turbine Complex—puts the real chokepoint in view: fighter propulsion, not only the platform outline.