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single crystal blades, bladed disk and EBPVD (electron beam plasma vapour deposit coating), all critical areas that the Kaveri engine has failed to find solutions to within the country. K-9 now will power AURA and K-10 program are now dead.GTRE has issued global tender to codevelope Brisk fan...

Most probably material isssue,because once it is sorted out you can increase OPR and Turbine inlet temperature to incrase thrust.SCB tech is only needed for blades in turbines. Weight issue can be resolved if develope lighter materials or decrease stages.Developing lighter materials is the only...

Kaveri still has serious wet thrust shortfalls and is overweight by more than 150kg.

@Dillinger: Yep.I have read DPP-2013. and yes ADA/DRDO have been spanked well,but I am waiting cancelation of HAL's BTT-40:cheers:.This trainer should had been built 2 decades ago and instead of focusing more on LCA,FGFA,ALH,MMRCA ,HAL is diverting precious human resources just for self-pride in...

High altitude engine test facility is being built bu Boeing as part of offset to the deal of 10 C-17 globemaster and will ask about its current status from PKS. Yeah,but as per SIPRI database, one EL/M-2052 AESA radar was sold to India. Buddy,I did'nt followed development of MK1,MK2 from the...

I guess many technologies that will be common to both Mk2 and AMCA are being researched upon as we speak. @Dillinger: Research on FSS panels are being done both by NAL and ISRO.

@Dillinger: Yeah the these projects are being run by different peoples in different teams.IMO,each of these are inadequate in terms of man-power,that's why MOD is trying to bring these peoples under same unit to complete LCA first and Looking at AMCA team ,don't you think it is too small team...

Let them first complete LCA MK1,LCA-MK2.These fighters can act as good number fillers. To test 5th generation technologies you don't need an entire Prototype vehicle.Technologies like IRST,AESA-MMR,FSS can tested on LCA itself. Finally,MOD has also questioned,the requiremnt of AMCA for IAF.I...

Tarmak007 -- A bold blog on Indian defence: Chandipur to Chitradurga! DRDO's new test range in Karnataka on track; 2nd facility after ITR near Balasore IMO,full scale radar range testing facility is being built at Chitradurga, and/or Hyderabad, where it was announced will hold a new range for...

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@Yogi SuperNova: ISRO Heavy Lift Vehicle ^^Link for that image.

Check again,it mentions 4T ,10T to GTO and LEO respectively. Yeah this concept is very far away.IMO, ISRO should emulate NASA's SLS configurations. Edit:that pic is from 'Indian Space Transportation System: Present Scenario and Future Directions'

^^ Yeah.we should first develope basic propulsion engines that would atleast complete all GSLV sagas. According to this pic,CE-100 will power upper stage of heavy launch vehicle. IMO,it is similar to RP-1 minus toxicity,carcogenic effects.

Just asking,What are your thoughts on the same. BTW,Happy Ramnavmi!

I think every pont besides these points are excellent. 1)CE-7.5 is a very complicated SSC CE.IMO, being 1st generation of SSC CE it has a very low thrust than any SSC CE. We can think of expander cycled CE as Tata Nano having excellent mileage and low weight,Gas generator cycled CE similar to...

@Yogi: From the pic posted by IND151,it is now clear that CE-60 will have staged combustion cycle.

My recommendation are: 1)As Ajaxpaul said,we need to increase accountability of not just DRDO but HAL also.Just like ISRO they should be accountable to PMO. 2)Most important,ALL PSU's should be fined if they fail to deliver projects at signed time. 3)DRDO should help building private...

IMO,CE-60 is primarily made for RLV-TSTO and duo of CE-100 may find its place in core stage of heavy launch vehicle.These things are not yet clear,we may have to wait for few more years.Nasa's SLS block1 will have RL-10 in its 2nd second but the SLS block 2 will 3 J-2x CE produing total of...

We don't want F-35,But its blue prints!:devil:

Here's a quiz for the uniformly well-informed readers of Broadsword. Best, second-best and third-best answers get a Platinum, Gold and Silver star respectively. And, of course, there is the Wooden Spoon... The questions: 1. What's happening on the Agni-6? (Hint: most of what has...