HAL 2.0: From hangars to hypersonic, the making of India’s defence behemoth
On a humid morning in Bengaluru, a sleek Tejas fighter glistens under the hangar lights at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s production line.
Just a few feet away, engineers crowd over the fuselage of a Dhruv helicopter, while in another bay, technicians fit gears for a satellite mission.
This isn’t the Hindustan Aeronautics of old, the public-sector pillar building a line of helicopters and licensed fighters. This is HAL 2.0.
