sancho
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Dont you think Kaveri, like Arjun, Akash and many indigenous projects are being shelved in favour of foreign vendors? This is a parallel which we can never reject. GRTE is just getting the blame. Already this engine have tested successfully in Russia. But still?
None of them are shelfed, but most of them has turned out to not be suitable to the requirements of the forces (Akash don't has any issues afaik), some times they didn't even met the basic requirements. Kaveri was flight tested on an IL76, but was just 1 engine of 4, so it wasn't critical to fly the aircraft, it just was tested in the air and not only in ground tests as before, so just took a minor step forward in the general development, nothing more. It is our habit to celebrate any babystep in developments, like the role out of one of several LCA prototypes, or achiving IOC 1, to think that anything important was achived, when it was not. ADA and DRDO might want to celebrate that to distract from the delays and failures they created, but it doesn't mean that they can deliver our forces what was planned for the defence of the country and as long that is not happening, we will remain with foreign procurements, which isn't a bad thing either as long as we aren't overdependent on it.
GTRE "must" be blamed for promising to develop an engine with certain specs for the LCA fighter, where they failed. They "must" be blamed on the fact that even they now have no hope in upgrading Kaveri to the required level alone and prefers foreign help (IAF is blocking the co-development with Snecma, not GTRE). Which means they overestimated their capabilities badly and the result effected the whole fighter development.
We have to call a failure of the scientist a failure and take them accountable for that, not just finding excuses for them and when our forces and MoD is then forced to buy foreign stuff, because of this development failure, we falsely blame them for not supporting Indian industry, because that's easier than admiting a failure.
If we want GTRE to learn, we have to blame them, because only then they will start to look at their mistakes in the project and will learn from it!