Indian PM Narendra Modi initiated an ambitious ‘Make in India’ project in 2014 emphasising domestic manufacturing and removing hurdles that prevented foreign collaboration in the defense sector because of the government’s strict foreign investment and joint venture regulations. Since he arrived in Panchavati (the official residential complex of the Indian PM), the indigenization drive accelerated considerably. India signed various co-production agreements with international aerospace companies including an agreement with a US defense firm General Electric (GE) to co-produce GE-414 engines