Fighter shapes in the making

Various fighter programmes under development by DRDO were publically displayed for the first time in model form during Aero India 2021. These included the single-engine LCA (Air Force) Mk.II also referred to as the medium weight fighter (MWF), with, alongside, model of the Navy’s twinengine deck based fighter (TEDBF).

The Indian Air Force has indicated its requirement for 5th generation fighters to be indigenously developed which is exemplified by scale model of the advanced medium combat aircraft (AMCA).