The Indian Air Force (IAF) has given a negative response to the French Company Snecma’s offer to join the Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE) in co-developing the long-delayed Kaveri turbofan combat aircraft engine for the indigenous LCA ‘Tejas’.
IAF sources indicated that the Snecma offer will not meet the Air Force’s operational requirements and will not enable the technological know-how to indigenously develop a combat engine. The reason cited by the committee was that Snecma is offering a fully developed engine which will hamper the efforts and pursuits of Indian defence laboratories towards developing the indigenous Kaveri engine.
Besides that, it will only be detrimental to India since it will end up acquiring an engine under license production and that too at a substantial cost. Hence, it will only makes sense to spend more time to develop the engine indigenously or at least accomplish it by collaboration.
The Kaveri engine for the LCA has been under development at the GTRE for two decades at a cost of almost $400 million.
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