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Sardaukar20

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India's future fighter programs now have to deal with GE now quoting 3X its original asking price.
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Commercial negotiations for the GE F414 engine, selected to power India’s Tejas Mk-2 and the initial variants of AMCA, have hit a serious roadblock. Despite an earlier agreement on technology transfer, GE Aerospace has sharply escalated its price demands — nearly tripling the per-unit cost.

Imagine having your future fighter programs at the mercy of a foreign company. Maybe it's about time to switch to the Kaveri engine.
 
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defenceman

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Hi,
why not to get from more reliable partner like Russia buy some su57 will price tag of engine technology this way Russian will be happy and India will get better option instead of looking towards west
thank you
 

ACuriousPLAFan

Lieutenant General
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So the engine fell off, but the rest of the aircraft just kept flying?

And that's only one engine. Rafale is a twin-engine fighter jet where's the second engine?

This has gotta be one of the stupidest types of cope shit I've ever come across in this forum.

Really? You think that Rafale's engines are hung underneath wing pylons like normal commercial jetliners (right), where the aircraft can still fly even when the engine detaches from its underwing pylon, as long as the aircraft's wing structural integrity is maintained?

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On the other hand, Rafale's engines (left) are entirely enveloped/enclosed by the fuselage (i.e., the main structural body) of the Rafale airframe. If that engine can fall out of the fuselage, that means the forces involved in causing this to happen would've caused the entire aircraft to suffer a catastrophic structural failure of the airframe, such that the whole aircraft would have disintegrated in the first place.

I don't think this requires advanced understanding in the engineering and physics fields to understand and acknowledge.
 
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Sardaukar20

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Hi,
why not to get from more reliable partner like Russia buy some su57 will price tag of engine technology this way Russian will be happy and India will get better option instead of looking towards west
thank you
India had partnered with Russia to develop a two-seater version of the Su-57. Then India pulled out and decided to develop the AMCA. They cited that the Su-57 wasn't good enough for them.

Why should India return to a plane that it had rejected when it now wants to join France to develop the FCAS? The Indians have already pivoted to the France for awhile. Now India is treating Russia like a 2nd tier supplier.

Russia for it's part has been rather generous with sharing technology with India for decades. HAL have assembled Migs for decades. So why hasn't India absorbed the ToT to produce proper fighters and engines today? This is a question for India to answer.
 
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