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[IDRW] In a months’ time Joint venture by GTRE and Snecma will be bring enhance thrust to the Kaveri Engine and new engine will be available in four to five years from now on , new joint venture most likely will be signed when French President Nicholas Sarkozy will come to India in April 2010.
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It would be flight-tested using the IL-76 aircraft in Russia, he said. The Kaveri engine, meant for India’s fighter jet, the Light Combat Aircraft Tejas, has completed all simulation and altitude tests. The altitude tests in Russia in February were a “grand success”, he said.GTRE officials said around Rs 3,000 crore has been spent on the Kaveri project. Rao said GTRE is now looking to reduce the weight of the Kaveri engine to 50 kg from 60 kg. “It has to be fine-tuned. We will go in for lot of optimisation in future”. GTRE, which is engaged in research and development of gas turbines for military aircraft, has so far developed nine Kaveri engines and four Kabini (core of Kaveri). “All engines have been tested to full potential,” he added. |
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After two decades of research and development, India is all set to flight-test its first indigenously developed jet engine next month, an official said on Wednesday. “Kaveri engine will be flight-tested in one-and-half months… Should be after middle of May,” Director of Bangalore-based Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE), a DRDO lab, T Mohana Rao, said.