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