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India’s 5th generation fighter aircraft program Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA ) might use ‘No Risk ‘ engine which practically means , AMCA will be powered by Existing engine this was informed by Drdo chief to a defence magazine when asked about power house for AMCA .
He also informed that they are currently looking for a suitable engine which will allow them to have first roll out of AMCA TD-1 in 2018 and have its first flight by 2020 . AMCA project was briefly suspended by ADA on orders of MOD to fasten up work in achieving IOC -2 for Lca Tejas , now it is official that Work on AMCA is back on track and work on the project has commenced .
For a while there were talks that new engine will be developed with help of French by mating M-88 core with India’s Kaveri engine but according to buzz in aviation circle is that talks with French have failed due to opposition by IAF who wanted new engine to be developed based on current Kaveri engine and was not in support of such joint venture .
Interesting questions still remains which engines will power AMCA ? We’ll according to many media reports AMCA will be powered by Two 90-110 KN engines with thrust vectoring capabilities , only engines which currently Fits the bill of thrust vectoring capability is AL-31 engines currently powering IAF’s Su-30MKI but each AL-31 engines produces 123KN of power , which seems like a over kill for an 25 tonnes Medium category aircraft , Then again even AL-41 engine which will power FGFA belongs to a Heavy category class and will not be viable for AMCA .
Another Russian option could be R-33OVT engines which comes with 3D thrust vectoring capability and the same non thrust vector variant powers Naval Mig-29K and Mig-29SMT upgraded aircrafts in IAF . HAL currently builds them locally under licence and in terms of power will suit the bill but then again this engine are no next generation cutting edge technology which are usually associated with 5th generation planes .
Last one who can chip in are American GE corporation Which can offer enhanced variant of F-414 and have experimented with thrust vectoring in the past but then again such modification and testing takes it own time . But there is likely chance that first AMCA TD -1 might be powered by Non thrust vectoring engines which will allow enough time for Americans to carry out necessary testing and modifications on the final engine which will power Prototypes .
We have put together possible scenarios based on current availability , even if we start developing a new engine for AMCA it is likely that it won’t be ready before first flight of AMCA .
AMCA will be powered by Existing engine ?? | idrw.org
He also informed that they are currently looking for a suitable engine which will allow them to have first roll out of AMCA TD-1 in 2018 and have its first flight by 2020 . AMCA project was briefly suspended by ADA on orders of MOD to fasten up work in achieving IOC -2 for Lca Tejas , now it is official that Work on AMCA is back on track and work on the project has commenced .
For a while there were talks that new engine will be developed with help of French by mating M-88 core with India’s Kaveri engine but according to buzz in aviation circle is that talks with French have failed due to opposition by IAF who wanted new engine to be developed based on current Kaveri engine and was not in support of such joint venture .
Interesting questions still remains which engines will power AMCA ? We’ll according to many media reports AMCA will be powered by Two 90-110 KN engines with thrust vectoring capabilities , only engines which currently Fits the bill of thrust vectoring capability is AL-31 engines currently powering IAF’s Su-30MKI but each AL-31 engines produces 123KN of power , which seems like a over kill for an 25 tonnes Medium category aircraft , Then again even AL-41 engine which will power FGFA belongs to a Heavy category class and will not be viable for AMCA .
Another Russian option could be R-33OVT engines which comes with 3D thrust vectoring capability and the same non thrust vector variant powers Naval Mig-29K and Mig-29SMT upgraded aircrafts in IAF . HAL currently builds them locally under licence and in terms of power will suit the bill but then again this engine are no next generation cutting edge technology which are usually associated with 5th generation planes .
Last one who can chip in are American GE corporation Which can offer enhanced variant of F-414 and have experimented with thrust vectoring in the past but then again such modification and testing takes it own time . But there is likely chance that first AMCA TD -1 might be powered by Non thrust vectoring engines which will allow enough time for Americans to carry out necessary testing and modifications on the final engine which will power Prototypes .
We have put together possible scenarios based on current availability , even if we start developing a new engine for AMCA it is likely that it won’t be ready before first flight of AMCA .
AMCA will be powered by Existing engine ?? | idrw.org
