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One need not place the engine within the airframe for a test bed. I am curious to know how they would like to mount Kaveri on Su 30.

Pratt & Whitney’s Boeing 747SP

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Kaveri is the only F404-class engine in the world that is still technically "active" but has no production program or aircraft assigned to it. It is fascinating that IAF has not asked for any dual-engine fighter even though Kaveri and M88-2 are comparable. R&D and large scale productio...

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"→ ₹7,700 crore: Final cost (started at ₹3,492 crore)"

I am sure this number is not inflation corrected. Else it would be >₹10,000 crores by today's value even at a modest rate of 5%. (Gemini gives a value of ₹14,003 cr, BTW)

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If I were to decide, once it reaches certain maturity, I'd happily shift engines of Mk1 to Mk1A and get on with life. The later engines could be provided to Mk1.

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The fact that Services/MoD did not ask for revisiting a Kaveri powered dual-engine fighter even under these circumstances is a testament to the dangers we will face even in future due to the inept leadership across-the-board. Aircraft should be designed around engines, we continue to do it the other...

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Adithya Krishna Menon @AdithyaKM_ CMD HAL to SCOD LCA Mk1A "..we have five aircraft ready. We have successfully completed the integration of the radar & [EW] We have also successfully completed the ASRAAM testing for air-to-air missiles & the ASTRA beyond visual range missile. These te...

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I have 2 questions.

1. Is it true that DRDO built nuclear submarine faster than Indian Navy acquiring P-75I?

2. How is IN celebrating 30 years of P-75I project, scheduled for next year? Or is it already over?

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What's the NEZ of Astra MK-2 if the range of the missile is similar to Sky Sting missile from Israel? 160? 165? So what is there that need joint venture in this area? This is opening another backdoor to push for export, when it's not possible to sell same type of missile, with same range to India. ...

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IMHO, if there was any issue with Tejas a/c itself, it would have been all over the news by now.

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Why would they want to keep it secret A plausible reason I read on SM is something like this, take it FWIW. Rollout is a ceremony that gives first appearance of a fighter while it could just be a shell inside. So it is not unusual to have rollout to precede first ground run by 6 or more months. Thi...

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If what the reporter says is true, time to give tight-slaps to HAL & MoD for increasing the order size to ELTA-2052 from 40 to 83! I am 100% sure that Uttam integration will be far smoother, but brochure-drooling idiots misplaced their faith in the Israelis The same radar was installed in Jagua...

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Charge $2.124B as ISE. Keep 124M for employees, give 1B for GTRE for Kaveri and 1B as dividend. Everybody will be happy. (124M sounds more authentic and genuine than 100M.)

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The fault is in long term planning. People already knew but were not doing anything. Internal sabotage or just plain inertia? I’d choose internal sabotage. The programme faced sanctions post-1998 by the USA, yet the engine had no backup plan—let alone being replaced with the Kaveri. If anything, th...

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Agreed. I just read online gossip about 'pre-stuffed' fuselage manufacturing for Mk2. Have to wait and see.

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^If they don’t have certification then it’s not ready. The requirement of certification was always there or was HAL just giving deadlines without certification. I am sure I will be crucified here but I am just so tired of this nonsense from HAL. Get private players involved NOW. https://upload.wiki...

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AFAIK, the afterburner R&D was given to BrahMos. But later even that was disputed.

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Indian Navy ALH Dhruv Fleet Set To Resume Flying https://kaypius.com/2026/01/06/indian-navy-alh-dhruv-fleet-set-to-resume-flying/ 06 Jan 2026 "... it could be related to manufacturing process of a particular “batch”" of non-rotating swash plates"!? Wow! They convinced many that there...

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HAL renamed its trainer HJT36 Sitara to Yashas. CMD, HAL told National Defence that the spin issue of the aircraft has been sorted out. Now aircraft can maneuver with 6 Ton Horizontal Right and 6 Ton Horizontal left. Thanks sir ji. After Feb 2025, there hardly seems to be any news. There were suppo...

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Any update on the IJT? I tried searching net but all I could get was user trails were happening. But I would like to know a little more, as no news at all is disconcerting. I mean, not even an emergency purchase news is seen! Wonder why!!

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Well, it might just be 'high-speed rocket-sled test of fighter aircraft escape system': Indranil Roy @Indrani1_Roy I think this is being misunderstood. I don’t think this is a new ejection seat by DRDO. In fact, this very much looks like the Martin Baker TJ16 ejection seat on Tejas. Many things go i...

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Ready for Delivery and Delivered are two different things. 2 weeks before Apache was on the way to be delivered. But returned back to the U.S because tiny Turkey blocked their delivery and the aircraft choose to go back rather than go around Turkey through Israel, Jordan, Saudi, Oman and into India...

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Hope the IAF dont keep Tejas MK1A grounded till Meteor is integrated. Hopefully induction process is initiated and soon a handover ceremony is to take place. https://x.com/InsightGL/status/1993337616113258905 @InsightGL -While #Pakistan is busy making memes & #China spreading propaganda #India’...

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I am not aware of any version of Derby being tested on the Mk1A. As far as Astra was concerned, the proposed upgrades post last trials were pending for approval. Not sure of the current status.

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FIGHTER @FighterPiloting Multiple successful firings of Astra Mk1s & ASRAAMs from Tejas-Mk1/Mk1A prototypes & production planes of IAF by HAL-ADA resulted in the largest all-aspect operational envelope ahead & behind any combat aircraft in India, clearing all major hurdles for op induct...

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Alpha Defense™🇮🇳 @alpha_defense MUM-T demos on the LCA aren’t new; these exercises have been ongoing for years and are now routine with other strike fighter. However, the teaming concepts DRDO and IAF are pursuing today are far more complex and ambitious this is just a start. 1:16 PM · Oct 27, 2025

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Insightful Geopolitics @InsightGL -Huge achievement -#IndianAirForce & #DRDO successfully demonstrated advanced Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) capabilities -TEJAS fighter jet networked with 2 UAVs -Trials validated command & control, sensor fusion & precision strikes -Trial occurred du...

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Admiral, I have long lost respect, and frankly interest, in our Servicemen (leadership only). Very few mean business and are upright like Mao sir. To begin with, this NUH business sounds like Arjun. I mean, if you want to have Arjun, you'd build the infra by the time it joins the service, not the ot...

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chetak wrote: ↑24 Aug 2025 12:03 to what end, uddu ji.

There is no trust anymore, either in the manufacturer or the product

any potential export markets would have dried up completely

Respect your handle (name) pl! Weren't Apaches, in production over 50yrs, grounded last year too?

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VishnuS wrote: ↑23 Aug 2025 10:19 With six squadrons of Rafale coming in, do we have place for TEDBF or will it get axed like HF 73!?

I'd be perhaps happier if it gets axed (due to unavailability of suitable engine) like HF 73 rather than like NLCA.

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+10 to the Admiral

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Well, one utility that is money's worth is in getting first hand insights into Apaches to better our products such as LCH. Like what China did with Russian equipment. Of course, ours would skip the unnecessary reverse engineering step.

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I wish LCA Tejas was built around a Russian or French engine, but I guess planners got obsessed with tech specs of engines (in which GE engines are the best) and did not consider strategic aspects. That was poor decision making. I am dead certain that LCA Mk-1, Mk-2 are not only designed with F-4X4...

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Let's not count chickens before they hatch. Today Trump threatened more measures within 24 hrs. Now the IAF can sit in a corner twindling thumbs or continue whining and badmouthing ADA and HAL to their heart's content on all occasions. Be it China or the USA, many BRF armchair analysts sadly have be...

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If we are serious at all, design Mirage 4K like dual-engine, Kaveri powered LCA. It will be faster and force IAF to purchase it. Left to itself, IAF will keep sabotaging the indigenous programs with spurious SQRs, delays and khayali pulao engines that, if exist at all, are prone to sanctions or supp...

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The complete upfront sentence would be, ‘We know while signing contracts systems will never come on time and yet we cause years of delay in ordering'.

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Gaming is what IN is doing with the fighters. Cancelling programs. Even after scrapping NLCA, it could directly have asked for stealthier version. It didn't, saying they are pragmatic. Funny as the same would have meant that it should have gone for NLCA Mk2, even as per the then ADA Director Cmde CD...

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...Kaveri 1.0 needs to improve the T/W ratio from 6.5 to 8.0 AFAIK, this does not give full picture. What happens if TWR is 6.5? It puts certain constraints. So what are they? Are they worth consideration? What's the point of having an engine with great TWR and is not supplied at all? The airframe ...

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Wish the viral trend was #TEDBFwithKaveri. Would have been great a service. The last I heard is that TEDBF is on the back burner. Navy wants a stealth 5th gen, deck based fighter. They got their Rafale M and no longer want the TEDBF. Something like this ----> TEDBF-S (Twin Engine Deck Based Fighter...

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We are genuinely up the creek without a paddle with Mk2. We are going to get coerced into MRFA or MMRCA 2.0 big time. The MRFA is coming, in some form or manner. If there is any doubt, please see this post ---> https://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.php?p=2648137#p2648137 Sorry I got confused ...

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Now heaven only knows what Safran has proposed to the Indian Govt as part of the AMCA turbofan JV. Could Safran offer to develop the M88-3 and M88-4 as alternatives to the F404 for Mk1A and F414 for Mk2? It is possible, but the question is will the Govt take up the offer? Perhaps they are only offe...

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