GTRE GTX-35VS Kaveri [SEP] manufacturer
GTRE GTX-35VS Kaveri
The GTRE GTX-35VS Kaveri is an afterburning turbofan project developed by the Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE), a lab under the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in Bangalore, India. An Indian design, the Kaveri was originally intended to power production models of the HAL Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) being built by the Aeronautical Development Agency. However, the Kaveri programme failed to satisfy the necessary technical requirements or keep up with its envisaged timelines and was officially delinked from the Tejas programme in
. Performance trials commenced in 1977 and the "demonstrator phase" was completed in 1981. The GTX 37-14U was "configured" and "optimized" to build a "low by-pass ratio jet engine" for "multirole performance aircraft". This engine was dubbed GTX 37-14U B.
Products GTX Kaveri.
GTX-35VS Kaveri Engine was intended to power production models of HAL Tejas.
Defending the program GTRE mentioned reasons for delay including:
- Non availability of state of the art wind tunnel facility in