India Needs To Be Agile On Self-Reliance In Aerospace

The unveiling of J-36, a sixth-generation fighter aircraft by China late last year, probably came as a Sputnik moment in its contest for air dominance with the US. The race to dominate Artificial Intelligence (AI) — think Deep Seek vs OpenAI — included, the intensification of the frontier-tech contest between the two becomes clear. The J-36, with a tailless delta platform that combines stealth design with an apparently large payload capacity for both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions, seems ready to be inducted into active service with the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) while the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) sixth generation fighter of the United States (US) is nowhere on the horizon. The launch of Sputnik, the world’s first space satellite, by the erstwhile Soviet Union, took the US by surprise in 1957 leading to the space race.

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