Updated: Sun, Jan 11, 2015, 12:06 [IST]
That's when the post was last updated. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then. Plus the thread is about Pakistan.
Please keep it clean. Thanks.
Indeed, the thread is about Pakistan not India. I brought Indian into it only to point out technical difficulties involved in designing and manufacturing a jet engine ‘ab initio’.
I would just to add that the latest news I have come across is that Indian Minitry of Defence is willing to overlook the fact highlighted in an internal report by the MoD which concluded that Rolls Royce paid bribes worth $75 million to secure orders for Adour Mk 871-07 aero engines for the Hawk advanced jet trainer aircraft being produced by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited under license from BAE Systems.
An MoD source said that Rolls-Royce is "coming up a in a big way" to tap the engine market here in addition to joining hands with DRDO to jointly develop a gas-turbine engine. Rolls-Royce opened a new defense service delivery centre in Bangalore on April 20, 2017; the first outside the U.S. and U.K. The Centre will provide engineering support and solutions to an estimated 750 Rolls-Royce engines used by the Indian Air Force and Indian Navy.
"The support centre is big enough to meet all Jaguar, Mirage, Sea King and other helicopter programs," an official at HAL said. "They (Rolls-Royce) have good support of U.S., and this will help them in many ways."
It appears that cooperation between the Rolls Royce and India on engine development would be in addition to the joint venture between 'Safran Aircraft Engines' of France and DRDO, to finish the indigenously developed Kaveri engine.
In Urdu there is saying which translates into “when you really need it, you will call even a donkey your father”. Main reason for the above being that India requires about 5,000 aero engines over the next several years to meet the needs of 300 to 400 fighter jets and 800 to 1,000 helicopters. Rolls Royce have the technical know-how that India badly needs.
Should Pakistan decide to develop an aero-engine or even a tank engine, she would need substantial technical help from a foreign source. Only countries that possess such knowledge are the US, UK, France, Russia & China.