India Jet Engines and Gas Turbines

Spitfire9 · Apr 14, 2026

Lonewolf said:
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Afterburner issue remaining

The above post was 2021. Now it is 2026 and I have not heard that the Kaveri afterburner now functions. India still has no FTB so it cannot be demonstrated that it works. I read (no source) that dry Kaveri has been waiting in Russia for years for FTB testing. Is that true?

Are GOI, GTRE quite incapable of getting things done? I sympathise with GTRE to the extent that it is government-owned and does not have the tools needed to develop fast jet engines. Many decades have been spent on Kaveri yet GOI has not had the sense to provide the tools to enable GTRE to do the job GOI selected it to do. On that basis why does anyone expect that an afterburning version of Kaveri will ever enter production?

Nilgiri · May 13, 2026

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2054511210494599280

Hosur emerges as aerospace hub with Rolls-Royce-HAL expansion

CHENNAI: As Tamil Nadu sharpens its ambitions to emerge as India’s aerospace and defence manufacturing hub, a joint venture between Rolls-Royce and Hindustan Ae

www.newindianexpress.com

Nilgiri · Monday at 1:50 PM

India closes in on its first homegrown fighter jet engine

PM urged India’s defence ecosystem to deliver an indigenous fighter jet powered by an Indian engine in 2025. The system has now moved to specific timelines. | India News

www.hindustantimes.com

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2084288569607344256

Spitfire9 · Monday at 2:14 PM

Only a couple of weeks to actual go ahead with an engine for AMCA?

Nilgiri · Monday at 3:03 PM

Spitfire9 said:
Only a couple of weeks to actual go ahead with an engine for AMCA?

This is just a bureaucratic approval at this point combined with some media clickbait opportunism etc.

Details of how the AMCA powerplant shapes up is longer term thing.