Vijyes
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Isn't diesel engine made out of simpler items than jet engine? Can't India simply reverse engineer the MTU design itself by breaking it open and understanding the blueprint? If MTU is good enough, why not reverse engineer the exact same engine as an exact replica? We are not going to show it to Germans anyway for them to claim that we violated their IPRWe currently source arjun engines from MTU rated at 1400 hp... MTU r world leaders in tank power packs..Abrams tank's locally built gas turbine engine failed in gulf war's sandy conditions making them to source diesel engines from MTU, now acquired by Rolls Royce power systems....it took MTU 12 years of r&d to arrive at this current power pack in production...no easy task for india to emulate..even USA doesn't hv indigenous power pack for Der MBT....keep in mind dat MTU was formulated in 1909..they were building diesel engines for zeplin in ww2..Der r only 3 countries with this technology...dats y CVRDE s cautious in the design stage...dey want the design to be validated first by an external consultant... give them some time to realise the product.....
Met a guy whose company in Chennai was supplying engine parts to MTU..so we do hv some amount of tank diesel engine parts industrial ecosystem in place in India....we lack an indigenous design....give them some time the labs are doing good work..
3 to 3.5 ton reduction s actually good considering d amount of goods put in the mark 2 which led to weight increase in first place.the tank that was placed for the static display had ballast weight on the turret, when enquired i found dey were testing an all electric power drive instead of the existing hydraulic drive whereby weight reduction was by 35% n the same tank was placed for static display....n remember the weight reduction s a work in progress...