#FundKaveriEngine - 1/14 The Rafale vs Tejas debate misses the point entirely. The question isn't which fighter we buy. It's which engine we can build. Acquisitions are band-aids. Engine programs are SOVEREIGNTY.
2/14 India's fighter roadmap is clear: Tejas Mk1A → Tejas Mk2 → AMCA. What's not clear: where the engines come from. That's the only question that matters for the next 30 years of Indian air power.
3/14 There is no ready-made engine we can buy. No foreign OEM has a 90-110KN class engine sitting on a shelf that fits our requirements without strings. We're not choosing between "buy" & "build." We are designing from scratch. The only question is who builds the capability?
4/14 And here's the budget reality: if we spend $35 billion on 114 Rafales, there's no money left for anything else. That's it. Acquisition done. INDIGENOUS PROGRAMS STARVED. Engine test beds, high-altitude facilities, Kaveri completion, etc all competing for scraps.
5/14 So flip the sequence. Fund the engine program FIRST. Flying test beds. High-altitude test facilities. Kaveri with M88 wet core parts if needed, structured like the Shakti JV with Turbomeca for the HAL Dhruv. This is the foundation. Everything else follows.
6/14 ** Priority ONE: Complete Kaveri. Get it flying. Learn. Whatever kN it puts out.
** Priority TWO: 90kN Class indigenous engine. The sweet spot for single-engine fighters.
** Priority THREE: Scale to 110 - 120kN for Mk2 and AMCA.
7/14 Fund the engine program FIRST. Whatever remains, use for acquisitions. Not the other way around. Kaveri. Testbeds. Facilities. 90 kN, 110 - 120 kN. This gets the money first. Rafales or whatever else, buy WITH what's left over. Planes depreciate. Engine capability compounds.
8/14 Making an indigenous fighter engine should be a NATIONAL MISSION. Not a DRDO project. Not a line item. A national priority with the focus, funding, and accountability that demands. India built nuclear weapons. India built space launch capability.
9/14 So India can build jet engines. But only if *WE* decide to. Everything else is commentary. If you solve the engine, then everything else (AMCA, TEDBF, Tejas Mk2, ORCA) will fall into place. Please get the turbofan certified.
10/14 Imagine a maximum wet thrust of 120kN - at minimum - turbofan, powering AMCA, TEDBF and ORCA. One engine, multiple platforms. The more we focus on the aircraft and not on the engine, India will continue to be challenged, as we presently are with the Tejas program.
11/14 Change that focus to the engine and watch how the rest of the pieces of the puzzle come together. You design an aircraft around an engine and not the other way around.
12/14 From Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on 15 August 1947 - "Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially."
13/14 "At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance."
14/14 To Indian Industry ---> Today is India's Destiny and her hour is NOW. *YOU* represent that destiny and that future. *YOU* are in the driver's seat. The dreams, hopes and aspirations of 1.4+ billion Indian citizens rest on the DECISIONS *YOU* take NOW. Jai Vigyan! Jai Hind!
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