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The
GTRE GTX-35VS Kaveri is an
afterburning turbofan being developed by the
Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE), a lab under the
DRDO in
Bangalore, India. An indigenous
Indian design, the Kaveri was intended to power production models of the
HAL Tejas fighter, originally called the "Light Combat Aircraft" (LCA), but it was officially de-linked from HAL Tejas program in September, 2008. Now GTRE is running two separate program for engine, the two different platforms are K9+ Program and the K 10 Program.
History
Program
In 1986, the Indian Defence Ministry's
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) was authorized to launch a programme to develop an indigenous powerplant for the Light Combat Aircraft. It had already been decided early in the LCA programme to equip the prototype aircraft with the
General Electric F404-GE-F2J3
afterburning turbofan engine, but if this parallel program was successful, it was intended to equip the production aircraft with this indigenous engine.
The DRDO assigned the lead development responsibility to its
Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE), which had some experience in developing jet engines. It had developed the GTX37-14U afterburning
turbojet, which first ran in 1977, and was the first jet engine to be designed entirely in India.<ref...
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