First enlighten me on how you came to the conclusion that 1st gen SCB are inferior to 2nd gen DSB? The 3rd gen DSB which uses Re is near comparable to 1st gen SCB on stress-rupture strength value. Now stop giving some nonsensical logic to support another nonsense.How many times should I tell you that 1st generation SCB is inferior to 2nd generation DSB? I have specifically stated this several times. That is why first generation SCB is rejected for Kaveri.
No one said that Re is found in abundance. But you should know this fact that Rhenium is an byproduct of byproduct. It is derived from Copper-Sulphide ore and India produces 2% of World copper and is among the top 20 countries to import Copper ore. Now what is stopping us to go for its extraction? Rare earth material itself means that its is not in abundance and any quantity, whether its found in river, estuary, stream or even in gutter. It is not a question of how much we could derive, but the question should be how to derive. The very reason why India sucks in Metallurgy.You are beginning to annoy me now. First understand what others are saying. Rhenium is a very rare metal and very difficult to extract in good quantity. Having trace rhenium will serve no purpose as extraction has to be in several tens of tons a year to be useful in case of war. Do you know how much aircrafts were made every year in WW2? The manhour to make aircrafts then is comparable to now and hence similar number can be made if not more due to increase manpower. Where will you get the required rhenium for that? The trace rhenium will serve no purpose and can at best help in making 15-20 AMCA's engines (30-40 engines). So, have common sense before you open your loud mouth
Wow................ Even Maruti celebrates its 1000 car rolled out or 5000th customer and things like that after using Multijet engine of Fiat. So its not a big deal for HAL to celebrate 50th engine handover. If you have read the report you quoted, it mentioned that HAL celebrated handing over of 50th engine manufactured from Raw material phase. The first raw material phase engine was manufactured by HAL in 2011. So its not not started from 2016. Now try to understand what it does means.Firstly, the point being spoken was "raw material" for Su30 plane. As I said about engine, 88% was made in 2014. In October 2017, a ceremony was held to deliver 50th Al31FP engine from raw material. Can you explain why some one would hold ceremony for 50th engine? If the assembly itself was engine manufacture, how did the engine of late 2017 become 50th? Every year 12 Su30 is made which needs 24 engines. So, in slightly more than 2 years, 50 engines would be made. This again shows that the engine from raw material was made since FY16.
Also, about Russia not giving the alloy ToT, it was an opinion of Ajai Shukla. There might have been friction between Russia and UPA because of which Russia delayed it. But, the full ToT was part of the contract signed by India under Vajpayee. So, your outdated articles don't serve any point nor do your assumptions have any merit
Raw material for engine manufacturing comes from Russia and HAL just cuts and design those parts that too under strict supervision of Russian counterparts who is posted year round in HAL facility. Now you could have know how of how to make a bolt. How many thread you have to cut and whether it would be cut in RHS or LHS. But it doesn't mean that you would have the complete technology to design it inhouse. Manufacturing of a part is one thing, but the complete know how of the manufacturing in another thing. Metallurgy is one integral aspect of this.
Unless and untill you have covered every nook and corner of the same, you can't say that you have obtained complete ToT. We may have manufacturing know how of Al-31FP, but it doesn't mean Russians have given us ToT of Jet engine.
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http://www.leteckemotory.cz/motory/al-31/index.php?enThe construction documentation for the serial production of AL-31FP was handed to the Ufa-based UMPO, which fulfilled in 2000 and 2001 the obligations that arose from the contract with India in 1996 to supply 40 pieces of Su-30MKI. In 2000, a supplementary contract was signed about licensed production of 140 Su-30MKI in the factories of HAL in India. The contract was worth 3.3 billion USD. Saturn gave the Indian side the technical documentation for the engines,UMPO gave the plant in the city of Karaput all the necessary technical equipment to build engines.
Now read what HAL has got. Just technical documentation for the engine. In a technical doc, they don't cover the manufacturing process. They just cover the specific design and parts involved in it and how to manufacture those specific parts. Its little more then screw driver job, but not complete ToT of JET ENGINE.