India will soon make indigenous engines for fighter planes, deal will be done with this country

News Topical, Digital Desk : India will no longer be dependent on America for fighter aircraft engines. India will make indigenous engines for fighter aircraft in collaboration with France. The central government may soon give final approval to the joint project between the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and French aerospace company Safran.

Under this project, Safran will help develop and manufacture advanced jet engines for India's indigenous fifth-generation fighter aircraft. The project aims to develop and produce an advanced 120-kilonewton engine in India for the twin-engine Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA). For this, 100 percent technology will be transferred.

The proposal may get approval soon

According to senior officials, DRDO will soon send this proposal to the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) for final approval. The estimated cost of this engine project, to be built in collaboration with DRDO's Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE), is around seven billion dollars.

After indigenously developing fighter aircraft engines, India will join the elite group of countries that have the capability to design, develop their own aircraft engines. Currently, the US, Russia, the UK and France are capable of manufacturing fighter aircraft engines. China still does not have its own technology to make aircraft engines. It uses Russian engines or reverse-engineered engines for its leading fighter aircraft.

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