Yes, we need to keep working at it and not give up. We might take time but would be able to keep the eco system and the knowledge gained alive.
Pokharaon 2 did put restrictions and it impacted many other programs.
GTRE could not come up with an engine not only due to external but internal factors that have plagued many other similar public sector undertakings. They may not have been able to come up with an engine worthy to be fitted in LCA because of the work culture and not only lack of resources.
I am also not defending other parts of our a bureaucracy or defence forces who too have also played a role.
Palming it‘s failures only on external factors isn’t acceptable. That is my contention.
Failure is never due to just one issue or reason, multiple things lead to it in case of Kaveri.
Babu culture in India is well know to everyone, so we don't have to keep bringing it up all the time. It's a given, but it should have only delayed the project and brought the costs higher.
However starting a ambitious project like Kaveri, should have been done with some humble beginning. Tejas is a good example of what happens, when one does it. Helping hands are needed for anyone
The funding provided in India further, has always been ignored. While no manufacturer reveals data, its generally considered that one needs billions of dollars to design/develop and then manufacture engines.
I read that the total funding marked for Kaveri was about 3.93 Billion rupees, not dollars mind you. In 2010 or so the total spending as per info revealed was 18.93 billion rupees. I mean the project management whoever did it, while doing outlay of funds should be flogged in public.
A country that never designed and developed engines, you give it few million dollars to develop it? This is nineties we are talking, when we still didn't have proper computers in place that can do designing. Leaving aside the machining tools, which have to be built for the material manufacturing etc. There are so many things a first timer has to work on, and this is the funding given.
We will keep talking on the shit done like this
Let's leave it at that, that we need to keep moving on Kaveri program. Der aaye durust aaye, it hasn't been totally abandoned thankfully.
If things go well and funding is given, a Kaveri similar to or better than F404 can be ready in next decade. Even then it won't be late, as by then Tejas will be coming to MLU (mid life upgrade) where the GE engines can be replaced with ours.
