Overview
- Rajnath Singh and Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, who laid the foundation in Puttaparthi on Friday, launched the AMCA infrastructure project valued at ₹15,803 crore.
- The complex will cover about 650 acres in Sri Sathya Sai district and is projected to create roughly 7,500 jobs and a new township.
- Built by the Aeronautical Development Agency under DRDO, the hub will assemble aircraft, validate avionics and stealth systems, and run flight trials before certification, a capability only a few countries have.
- Alongside the AMCA hub, officials kicked off a Flight Testing Centre, a Naval Systems facility of Bharat Dynamics in Anakapalli, defence energetics and ammunition plants, and Drone City projects in Kurnool.
- Singh detailed industry commitments including ₹480 crore by Bharat Dynamics for underwater systems, ₹1,500 crore by Agneyastra for advanced weapons, ₹1,294 crore by HFCL for fuzes, while the state set aside 400 acres for AMCA-linked suppliers expected to draw near ₹1 lakh crore in investment.