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4 engine platform is best because you are impacting way less by switching one engine out....and tends to fit within existing regulations no problem. 2 engine could potentially be used, but it would put the pilots under higher stress given the differential thrust problem combined with...

Not enough investment in the program to convert say an IAF Il-76 into a testbed. It is well within Indian capacity to have its own flying test bed The program (and its predecessors that led to this one) has been criminally underfunded over long time compared to what has been expected out of...

Certainly puts things into perspective. Well done on your effort here. The platform taking shape here seems to be range + payload focused rather than compromise with tactical maneuver that comes with fighter role.

Such a typical ryder thing to find too lol.

January 7th will be the docking and its broadcast Onboard footage of launch:

340 mil USD for the AIP and 100 mil USD for the (Varunastra) torpedo integration

Happy new year to everyone!

SPADEX was successfully launched, the docking experiment will happen in the coming days, hope that is all done successfully too

Well Kaveri was already separated from its major end-use (Tejas) in 2008 or so as it missed some crucial parameters. This preceded Modi coming to power, there was some impetus from one defence minister he had (w.r.t Tejas, but again Kaveri was already disjointed from it)....but the larger issue...

Doubtful, this program has been given very low priority for so many years now and its suffered....as seen by this long space of time between the first flying test bed tests with Russians earlier being ~ 10 years etc. With catch up need (of larger jet engine propulsion ecosystem) and also...

https://manufacturing.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/aerospace-defence/kaveri-engine-approved-for-inflight-testing-a-breakthrough-in-indian-aerospace/116615602

Indeed. I expect many more "Mig 25" moments coming up w.r.t PRC. Whatever comprehensively establishes and deploys remains to be seen and measured in way say SpaceX "90% of worlds mass to orbit " has now shown downstream to its genesis....compared to say continued NASA statist arc which would...

The issue for PRC is its way behind in AI development (if one looks into the current IP flow and investment rates of where they ought to be) and AI will be critical for 6th gen....and will remain so as the CCP is distrustful of LLM scaling and so on. So the early hardware is largely posturing...

Excellent finds. This is great to see.