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It's apples and oranges. Different technolgies involved. India has also launched satellites and spacecraft. Making an engine that is reliable for 8000 hours is different from say, a rocket or a missile that only has to last less than an hour. After 20 years and tens of billions of dollars...

Chinese copies of russian AL-31 engines break down after 80 hours, and they are still not operational; they are still using Russian engines on their operational aircraft and the Chinese ones are just used for propaganda purposes. They tried to steal it from the Russians, but were unsuccessful...

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I've been hearing the saga about Chinese engines for the last 2 decades, and they are still using Russian AL-31 engines because Chinese engines break down after 80 hours. And this is after they sank massive amounts of money into these projects. They haven't been able to master even AL-31 level...

It is not about race. Read again what I have written. It is about India's open society which encourages independent thought vs Chinese closed society (with CCP's military style safeguards that watch everybody) which stifles independent thought. One example is how Chinese engines don't work...

20 years is a long time. With time and scientific ingenuity, all things are possible. Do not underestimate the brilliance of Indian engineers and scientists. They proved the world wrong on the Tejas, and they will do the same when it comes to engines. Indians are better at coming up with...

A lot of developmental work has happened in the last decade since then, including successful creation of single crystal blade technology. In the next decade, they will operationalize it on a working engine.

GTRE has made progress on the hot sections, so India is going to get there on its own anyways eventually; so US companies are going to be more willing to move the entire manufacturing to India. By manufacturing the entire engine in India, US companies will be able to make a lot more engines...

India is going to be needing a lot of engines in the future; either F414 or something similar by GTRE to power Tejas, MWF, TEDBF, AMCA. So it is totally worth it both to manufacture F414 engines in India and eventually create Indian engines to power all these fighter aircraft, in addition to...

I don't like to blame Russia because they are stuck in their own situation vs the west/China. Russia was the only one to supply India weapons at a time when India was under sanctions by the west; so it's better to keep them on friendly terms instead of pushing them into the China camp. It's...

Perhaps Russia will eventually develop a more reliable engine for the Mig-29k. I wish there was a way to put more reliable western engines (F404) on it.

The member who answered the question has been posting pro-Chinese government propaganda on this forum (check China economy and Kaveri engine threads) for quite some time, so may have ulterior motives; just to let you know.