HAL Disqualified from India's Stealth Fighter Bid on Technical Grounds: Defence Secy

India's state-owned aerospace firm HAL failed to qualify for the country's stealth fighter jet development programme, Defence Secretary RK Singh confirmed at the NDTV Defence Summit. HAL had submitted a bid in partnership with two smaller companies but did not meet the mandatory technical and financial criteria set by the Defence Ministry. Out of seven consortia that had initially expressed interest, only three cleared the qualifying requirements as of February 2026. Singh described the disqualification as being based on routine technical grounds, indicating no exceptional or political factors were involved.
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