{"id":103581,"date":"2026-08-14T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/103581\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:58:09","slug":"billionaire-mukesh-ambanis-reliance-rolls-royce-to-develop-fighter-jet-engines-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/103581\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Mukesh Ambani\u2019s Reliance, Rolls-Royce To Develop Fighter Jet Engines In India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" top-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786723089_73_0x0.jpg\" alt=\"Key Speakers at the India AI Impact Summit\" data-height=\"904\" data-width=\"1356\" fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg Finance LP<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ril.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.ril.com\/\" aria-label=\"Reliance Industries\">Reliance Industries<\/a>\u2014controlled by Indian billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/mukesh-ambani\/\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/mukesh-ambani\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"Mukesh Ambani\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mukesh Ambani<\/a>\u2014will partner with UK-based Rolls-Royce Holdings to develop fighter jet engines in India as the country\u2019s largest conglomerate expands into military aviation.<\/p>\n<p>The duo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ril.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-08\/14082026_MR_Reliance_Industries_Rolls-Royce_AMCA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.ril.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-08\/14082026_MR_Reliance_Industries_Rolls-Royce_AMCA.pdf\" aria-label=\"said\">said<\/a> Friday that they will jointly design, develop and manufacture an indigenous combat engine for India\u2019s Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) programme, which aims to develop country\u2019s homegrown fifth-generation fighter jets. The two companies didn\u2019t disclose financial details for the project.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;India\u2019s strategic autonomy requires sovereign capability in critical technologies,\u201d Anant Ambani, executive director of Reliance Industries said in a statement. \u201cOur intent with Rolls-Royce is to combine their world-leading expertise in advanced propulsion with Reliance\u2019s technology, manufacturing, scale and execution capabilities to build an indigenous aero-engine ecosystem in India.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>To support the project, the partners will build a dedicated aerospace gas turbine complex focused on developing advanced power and propulsion technologies. The upcoming facility will also enable the partners to explore wider collaborations across defence, civil aerospace, and new power and propulsion systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTogether, with our existing partnerships and capabilities in India, this marks a major milestone towards building a robust, self-reliant aerospace ecosystem in the country,&#8221; Tufan Erginbilgi\u00e7 CEO of Rolls-Royce said.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the Indian government earmarked 15 billion rupees ($157 million) to bankroll the AMCA programme in an effort to fast track the development of the next generation fighter jets for the Indian airforce.<\/p>\n<p>With an estimated real-time net worth of $89.9 billion, Mukesh Ambani is the wealthiest tycoon in the Asia-Pacific. He leads Reliance Industries, which has interests in energy, petrochemicals, telecommunications, retail, media and financial services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[20731],"tags":[43521,1233,43520,43471,1238,23179],"class_list":["post-103581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rolls-royce","tag-anant-ambani","tag-india","tag-mukesh-ambani","tag-reliance","tag-rolls-royce","tag-rolls-royce-holdings"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117094691953871378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}