India has suffered a major setback! Foreign bloggers have commented that just because China can do something, it doesn't mean India can do it too! On July 3rd, foreign media reported that India's fighter jet engine project suffered a major setback. After 40 years and an investment of 400 million dollars, India's "Kaveri" jet engine project has officially failed. This means that the Indian engine project ultimately failed to provide power for the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas, and the Indian domestic project has fallen into an expensive dead end.
Evidently, the failure of India's self-developed engine project is a huge blow to India and to Modi's "Make in India" initiative. Foreign bloggers said that as developing countries, India hasn't proven that it can do what China can do. Of course, in terms of the engine field, this fact is indeed true. Honestly, our path of engine development has also been full of hardships.
For example, the turbofan-10 "Taihang" engine equipped on our J-10 fighter aircraft began related research in the 1980s, was officially approved in 1987, and was officially standardized in 2006, taking about 19 years to develop successfully. The turbofan-15 engine equipped on our J-20 fighter aircraft started preliminary research in 1991, completed design standardization tests in 2013, and took about 22 years to develop. Compared with India, we not only achieved success in the development, but also significantly shortened the development time compared to India. Such a comparison must be bitter for India. It seems to indicate that India's dream of becoming a manufacturing powerhouse is still far away!
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