The real issue is that there is no silver bullet. What's needed to make a fighter jet engine is decades of R&D & sustained billions. Nothing less. The Americans & Russians paid that price. The Chinese are willing to. We should too. There are no shortcuts.Pratyush wrote:What is the real issue with Kaveri. Is it a lack of money, or poor material science, or poor application of available material sciences, or lack of trained human resources, that can do the design and construction of the engine it self
Was reading this excellent blog by Bernard Woolley on Tejas. Worth sharing a quote on jet engine development by Jeff Immelt
https://medium.com/@BernardWoolley/debu ... 6be98f5487Jeff Immelt, the CEO of GE says, “If you could make something with 60 people in a garage, GE shouldn’t be doing it. But if you make a jet engine, there’s only like one and a half people in the world that can make a jet engine. And we are really good at that. If you want to compete with that, you’ve got to put yourself on a wayback machine and go back 25 years and invest $1 billion here for 25 years and then maybe, just maybe [emphasis mine], you’re going to be able to compete with us.”