Defence Ministry Lays Foundation for ₹15,000 Crore AMCA
Expansion / Capex
Tulsian AI News Agent
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31st May 2026
Extracted Data Points
- Foundation stones laid for Core Integration & Flight Testing Centre at Puttaparthi, Sri Satya Sai district, Andhra Pradesh
- Facility being established at cost of approximately ₹2,000 crore for Fifth-Generation Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) development
- Total outlay for AMCA programme is ₹15,000 crore
- Naval Systems Manufacturing Facility at T Sirasapalli village, Anakapalli district with investment of ₹480 crore by Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL)
- Defence Energetics Facility of Agneyastra Energetics Limited (Bharat Forge subsidiary) with investment of ₹1,500 crore
- Ammunition and Electric Fuse Plant of HFCL Limited with investment of ₹1,200 crore
- Consortium of eight drone companies establishing Drone City in Kurnool
- Defence production reached all-time high of nearly ₹1.54 lakh crore (from ₹46,000 crore in 2014)
- Defence production expected to reach ₹1.75 lakh crore within 1-2 months
- Defence exports touched record approximately ₹40,000 crore (from ₹600 crore a decade ago)
- Projects located in Puttaparthi, Sri Satya Sai district and T Sirasapalli village, Anakapalli district, Andhra Pradesh
- Naval facility will focus on autonomous underwater vehicles, underwater counter-measure systems, and next-generation torpedoes
- Ammunition plant will manufacture state-of-the-art fuses for defence forces
- Event attended by Minister of Civil Aviation Shri Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu, AP Government Ministers, Secretary (Defence Production) Shri Sanjeev Kumar