India’s jets with India’s jet engines? Tough ask

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Just four countries make their own jet engines..

Even hi-tech Japan and persevering China, despite deep pockets, are yet to build their own original..

If theres one piece of tech every countrys desperate to get its hand on today, it is jet engines..

Air power superiority at the core of strategic defence, countries that can master jet engine tech will be leagues ahead in the game...

Last year, India inked a deal with US to jointly produce fighter jet engines for. IAF..

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