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For new engines, its a fairly common practice. TS1400 is a helicopter engine, so they can conduct tests in an incremental fashion. Helicopter engines do not always need a testbed. When TS1400 starts testing on T625, the helicopter will first undergo low-level hover tests and manuever a few feet...

:sad: But if they succeed, that might convince the Government to issue funds for a flying testbed for future engine programs.

HSTDV is for few hundered km. HGV is for ICBM ranges. Its materials challenge is orders of magnitude greater.

We don't have HGV, though the requisite materials are being researched in India. Once that materials research reaches maturity, we might. Till then, we have SCRAMJET cruise missiles and MaRV equipped Ballistic missiles.

Sounds quite similar to our (Solid Fueled Ducted Ramjet) SFDR project, its been flight tested a couple of times. Has Turkey developed its own BVRAAM based on normal solid-fuel rocket technology yet? Or is the plan to leapfrog directly to ramjet powered BVRAAM? Has it been flight tested yet or is...

Indeed. Spaceflight help develop many of the technologies required for ICBMs. One important ICBM tech your current space program goals do not mention is re-entry technology. Mastering the materials required for that is no mean feat. BTW, what kind of liquid rocket engine is Turkey building...

Does Turkey have the IPR of the Focal Plannar Arrays that go into these IIR sensors?

ICBM SSBN ASAT BMD SCRAMJET To name a few. Indian Defence Industry already has active products in all these categories. Turkey doesn't. If we look deeper into it, there might be other areas.

Don't get me wrong. Our defence industry is much wider in scope than Turkey's and its maturing leaps and bounds as well. What I am comparing is the lack of a consistent drive at the national level to indigenize these products. We still have sword hanging over ATAGS, etc. Till recently, we had...

You should check out some of his posts regarding TEI. They aren't as far behind. Sure, getting from there to an engine is tough, but its not like the Americans are itching to put some sanctions on Turkey either. For them, if Erdogan goes out of picture and someone more amicable to American...

You should check out the Quora link he gave last page. It explains how Turkish Defence Industry is somewhat hardened against those sanctions. They seem to have the drive to push forward on the indigenization path despite a sanctions threat. Similar to the drive India itself magically develops...

Its an American blade material that they sell commercially. Its 2nd generation, not their cutting edge 5th or 6th gen or CMC. That the blades made by DMRL for HTSE-1200 were made of CMSX-4 was actually reported in a PIB press release, so its official...

But they are teaming up tho. The CMSX-4 blades were made by DRDO DMRL. Even if only DMS3 was available, that at least shows that a second generation CMSX-4 material is superior to DMS3 which is our 3rd gen material. Either that or there is some problem making blades out of our DMS series. Those...

You're making the same mistake again. If we go for a 110kN engine with a 100kg/s fan (and engine), it would weigh around 1500 kg. That would basically mean a thrust to weight ratio of (110X1000)/(1500X9.8) = 7.48 Even AL-31 has thrust to weight of 8.22 On the other hand, I am saying that they...

Lets wait and watch if it results in an actual contract worth any value to us.

Not sure if we ever signed for such a JV.

Link please!

Yep. But they have the drive to achieve it. Just like the Chinese. Meanwhile here we are, spoiled for choice so much that we spend $1 Billion importing engines from GE and only $250-300 Million on developing one of our own. There needs to be a new IGMDP-like national project centered around ALL...

I think we are missing the point here. GTRE knows that Kaveri is 78 kg/s mass flow engine. Why would they put out an RFI asking for collaboration on 100 kg/s? Is there some other engine project in the works we don't know about? Look at the name of the program, its not written Kaveri, rather its...

No. We don't know that for sure.