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The GTRE GTX-35VS Kaveri is an afterburning turbofan project under development by the Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE), a lab under the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in Bengaluru, India.
It is a failure of the otherwise successful Rajiv Gandhi govt. (interns of the LCA program), to not bring the GTRE under the roof of the ADA and instead let them do their own thing. And this mistake has been continued by every government since then.
10 sty 2022 · What is the status of the LCA programme? Two decades since the first flight, in February 2021, the Defence Ministry signed a ₹48,000 crore deal with HAL to supply 83 LCA-Mk1A to the IAF.
27 sie 2024 · The Kaveri engine project, initiated by the Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE) of the Defence Research and Development Organisation in the 1980s, was intended to power the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas. However, the project faced numerous challenges, leading to its failure to meet the requirements for the Tejas.
6 gru 2005 · The LCA, or Tejas as it was named, is a small light combat aircraft capable of supersonic speeds. It is designed to carry out frontline tactical missions and will replace Indian Air Force MiG-21 jets.
The Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas is an Indian single-engine, fourth-generation, multirole light fighter designed by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) in collaboration with Aircraft Research and Design Centre (ARDC) of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the Indian Air Force and Indian Navy.
2 gru 2017 · ADA is aiming to complete the vibration, structural tests and the flight testing process in six years. The timelines look highly ambitious considering the technical challenges associated and one can only hope that ADA is not committing the same mistakes it committed with the GTRE in the LCA/Kaveri programme.
