India's 𝗞𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶 𝗗𝗿𝘆 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝟰𝟴.𝟱 𝗸𝗡 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮

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@Nimble & @Kaveri Engine

 

[mythbuster]

Yes, we know this facinating piece of technology has been under development long before you were even concievedView attachment 217468 .

Good to know that after 4+ Decades, you can finally fit a Chinese-made camera on toy & fit it with this awesome "dry" engine - and call it a UCAV.

Probably , they will be rebuilding the engine after every 20 hours of flying.

 

[mythbuster]

Or .... Kaveri for kamakazi mission.

 

[Kaveri Engine]

Yes, we know this facinating piece of technology has been under development long before you were even concievedView attachment 217468 .

Good to know that after 4+ Decades, you can finally fit a Chinese-made camera on toy & fit it with this awesome "dry" engine - and call it a UCAV.

Developing an indigenous turbofan engine is the most complex engineering challenge in aerospace, and India has spent decades building the expertise, infrastructure and technology required to achieve it.

So far, only US, Russia, France, UK, and China have developed 50 kN-class non-afterburning turbofan engines for drones and bombers. With the Dry Kaveri, India joins this select group as the sixth nation. An afterburning, wet-thrust variant will also follow in the next 5–6 years.

 

[Kaveri Engine]

Probably , they will be rebuilding the engine after every 20 hours of flying.

If you have actual test data showing that the Kaveri requires rebuilding every 20 flight hours, present it.

The Kaveri dry engine has logged roughly 70 hours of ground testing at the Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE) facility in Bengaluru and approximately 75 hours of altitude and in-flight trials using an Ilyushin Il-76 flying testbed at the Gromov Flight Research Institute and CIAM in Russia

 

[Kaveri Engine]

Remarkable! Cemilac Certification? Would it be it's 50th certification?

CEMILAC certification is just a formality. The most difficult part of engine testing is flight testing, which the Kaveri engine completed successfully and even exceeded expectations, producing 48.5 kN of thrust against the target of 46 kN.

 

[Kaveri Engine]

The amount invested in engine development shows its only another vanity project. The metallurgy and able to last thousands of hours is something that they haven't even dipped their toes in. Maybe in another 40yrs I guess or longer.

Developing a modern turbofan is precisely about mastering metallurgy, high-temperature materials, turbine technology, manufacturing and endurance testing—capabilities that have to be developed progressively through testing and iteration.

The Kaveri programme has already generated decades of indigenous experience and thousands of hours of engine testing across its prototypes and core engines. The Dry Kaveri has now demonstrated flight-test capability and produced around 48.5 kN against a 46 kN target.

If you have actual test data showing that its components cannot achieve the required durability, present it. Otherwise, claiming that India “hasn't even dipped its toes” into metallurgy or endurance is simply an assertion, not an engineering assessment.

A 40-year-old development programme is not evidence of failure; the relevant question is what technology and capability the programme has produced today.

 

[Kaveri Engine]

Decades of hard work is now showing colors.... slowly and steadily everything will be achieved including any generation fighter jets engines at home.... congratulations to India and our team of all engineers, workers who achieved this milestone....

successful development of Kaveri engine provides valuable experience for India’s joint venture with France to co-develop an engine for AMCA. Intended to be among the most advanced fighter jet engines in the world, the project has received $8 billion in funding from the Indian government, a massive investment that far exceeds the budget allocated Kaveri in the 1980s, even when accounting for inflation.

Kaveri Engine cumulative expenditures recorded around ₹2,035.56

The total amount officially sanctioned by the Indian government for the Kaveri Derivative Engine (KDE) dry engine program is Rs 723.59 crore