{"id":191450,"date":"2009-08-15T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/15\/in-an-outbreak-of-sanity-india-seeks-to-buy-rather-than-develop-tejas-2-engine\/"},"modified":"2009-08-15T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T14:41:00","slug":"in-an-outbreak-of-sanity-india-seeks-to-buy-rather-than-develop-tejas-2-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/15\/in-an-outbreak-of-sanity-india-seeks-to-buy-rather-than-develop-tejas-2-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"In an Outbreak of Sanity, India Seeks to Buy, Rather Than Develop Tejas 2 Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian AF recently rejected proposals for foreign aid to develop the indiginous Kaveri engine from the Gas Turbine Research Establishment, and now the India&#8217;s Aeronautical Development Agency has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/07\/30\/330336\/india-seeks-proposals-for-tejas-2-fighter-engine.html\">requested proposals for complete engines from both Eurojet (EJ200) and GE (F-414) for an off the shelf proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, this a good move, though I am kind of surprised that the IADA is nto also looking at the Klimov RD-33, later versuions of which are in the 20,000 lb thrust range, and is already in service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian AF recently rejected proposals for foreign aid to develop the indiginous Kaveri engine from the Gas Turbine Research Establishment, and now the India&#8217;s Aeronautical Development Agency has requested proposals for complete engines from both Eurojet (EJ200) and GE (F-414) for an off the shelf proposal. All in all, this a good move, though &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1128,1151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-propulsion","category-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}