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Military platforms, drones and new weapons
The platforms that carry military power, and new kinds of weapon: aircraft and their engines, ships and submarines, tanks and artillery, drones and counter drone systems, and directed energy and electronic warfare. Prelims has asked about fifth generation fighters, stealth and drone swarms.
UPSC has asked
- Prelims 2026: stealth technology, radar cross-section and radar absorbing material
- Prelims 2025: unmanned aerial vehicles, their landing, hovering and power
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Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft engine
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The Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) is India's planned fifth-generation fighter, a stealth design. The engine is the part it cannot yet be given at home, and in August a partnership to develop one was announced.
- Reliance Industries and Rolls-Royce announced plans to design, develop and manufacture an indigenous engine for the aircraft.
- They will also explore an aerospace gas turbine complex in India as a centre for propulsion technology.
- Bids for the AMCA's development were extended to 30 October 2026.
What changed
UPSC has asked
- Prelims 2024: which of the listed aircraft are fifth generation fighters