NAL Saras, Regional Transport Aircraft (RTA) & Hansa Project

[Raj Malhotra]

Is TATA getting any TOT for PW engines in C-295? Which are also in 2000-4000hp category?

 

[Indx TechStyle]

What's the 4000 HP project all about ? A clean sheet greenfield project or a derivative of the HTFE - 25 ?

No clarity yet on anything.

The afterburner version of this engine can be used for Jaguar.

That is "can be" per forum members but there is no "will be".
There is no planned aircraft for engine and this is the case and it is hence, not flying where suggestions don't help.

 

[NutCracker]

What's the 4000 HP project all about ? A clean sheet greenfield project or a derivative of the HTFE - 25 ?

4000hp fits the bill for 80 seater Regional transport AC.
HTFE25 maybe used for Triton/Global hawk like HALE drone.

Is TATA getting any TOT for PW engines in C-295? Which are also in 2000-4000hp category?

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First of all deal was with Airbus not PW. Also, No one gives engine tech like this , such news would've made lot of noise.

ADA gives design , DRDO gives engine and Tata/HAL builds RTA.

 

[standard snowball]

Can anyone tell me what exactly went wrong with Saras mk1, it started in 1991 for goodness sake.
Why did it take so much time and is still no where near induction
Even Tejas didn't take this much time

 

[SilentlAssassin265]

Can anyone tell me what exactly went wrong with Saras mk1, it started in 1991 for goodness sake.
Why did it take so much time and is still no where near induction
Even Tejas didn't take this much time

No interest from forces or commercial airliners.
It's a private jet sized plane doesn't add any value to defence forces and airliners will only buy tried and tested products.

 

[Arjun Mk1A]

Can anyone tell me what exactly went wrong with Saras mk1, it started in 1991 for goodness sake.
Why did it take so much time and is still no where near induction
Even Tejas didn't take this much time

NAL is one of the least funded organizations within our Research Orgs. So they started from 1991 in 2001 they had an Prototype ready. But sancitons dragged them and also one of the prototype crashed which killed the test pilots. Then the project under UPA went to ventilator and died in 2016.

Somehow NDA 2 revived it and now they are working on a bigger 19 seater which will be useful in UDAN scheme. Again we don't know the size and funding they are recieving.