10 years from a completely clean sheet design to a prototype is actually what's typically expected for a jet engine. It's just the nature of the problem to have long design cycles. In 15-20 years India will have something it calls a prototype, it'll be a total failure that gets thrown on the trash heap beside its Kaveri predecessor, and India will announce a brand new project for a new engine with whatever the state of the art is. Repeat ad infinitum.[QUOTE="waqasmwi, fighter-jet-engine-will-power-the-future-fighter-aircraft-of-the-]
Based on their history of red tape and corruption, it will take at least 10 years to get a prototype
But kaveri hasn’t reached minimum design requirements and hasn’t got beyond testing. How can it even be considered a decent engine?
Are you drunk?
you take that back, if it's made in india and has bindi and coconut broken on it, it is indian
Because it is not a decent engine by any means whatsoever. As you said, it did not even match the design specs, which were already extremely low to begin off with. This is what happens when a country that has zero experience in gas turbine engines moves to build a full blown aeroengine without any intermediary steps. At a bare minimum, India should have at least started building turboshafts, which are significantly easier to build than aero engines, just like Turkey has to gain gas turbine experience. Instead, India decided to run before it learned how to walk, which is why the Kaveri ended up as a massive failure, just like the Arjun, the LCA, and other domestic weapons systems.
Building a working engine prototype isn't actually that difficult on its own. The much harder issue is getting it to mass production, where the manufacturing cycle has to be very closely monitored and the engine has to be flight tested thousands of times. That is why you see the Russian Product 30 engine, which entered flight testing aboard a Su-57 back in 2017, not even being planned for operation throughout basically the entire decade.
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because..... Aik dam chup !
There's no shame in copying or reverse engineering ... as long as it fulfills your requirements, then you are happy. That is why China took no second thoughts in coming out with the Sino-flankers and the Z-20. As Steve Jobs said, good artists copy, great artists steal. The only reason why the Indians are talking about the Chinese being copiers is because they themselves do not have the capability to copy. That is why their indigenous arms industry is complete dog crap and the very few weapons that do see the light of day will be turned into scrap metal as soon as war starts.
I don't know, bro. But I for one, does not take pride in copying. It's pretty shameful. But we're getting out of it and innovating now and I feel much better in this Era.
