AMCA - Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft

[Spitfire IX]

(from Wiki)

Accumulated dev cost
LCA up to 2020 - US$1.3 billion / ₹9,063.96 crore
Kaveri up to 2023? - US$290 million / ₹2,032 crore
Additional development up to 2023? - US$160 million / ₹1,202 crore

I am astonished. GOI should forget about developing a fighter MIC. Funding is radically inadequate.

 

[Azaad]

(from Wiki)

Accumulated dev cost
LCA up to 2020 - US$1.3 billion / ₹9,063.96 crore
Kaveri up to 2023? - US$290 million / ₹2,032 crore
Additional development up to 2023? - US$160 million / ₹1,202 crore

I am astonished. GOI should forget about developing a fighter MIC. Funding is radically inadequate.

Right & in that generous budget which amounts to less than 2 billion USD India's managed to build a 4.5 Gen FA in the LCA Mk-1 / Mk-1a , a half decent TF with multiple applications from obviously the aerospace sector to Naval applications to possibly , if we explore it further , in train locomotives , but most importantly it has built up the entire aerospace eco system in India apart from kick starting projects like the LCA Mk-2 / AMCA / TEDBF / UCAV - Ghatak besides serving as the foundational program , with all this achieved in that golden budget figure mentioned above & in less than 4 decades.

 

[Spitfire IX]

Right & in that generous budget which amounts to less than 2 billion USD India's managed to build a 4.5 Gen FA in the LCA Mk-1 / Mk-1a , a half decent TF with multiple applications from obviously the aerospace sector to Naval applications to possibly , if we explore it further , in train locomotives , but most importantly it has built up the entire aerospace eco system in India apart from kick starting projects like the LCA Mk-2 / AMCA / TEDBF / UCAV - Ghatak besides serving as the foundational program , with all this achieved in that golden budget figure mentioned above & in less than 4 decades.

Indeed. Just for comparison, each year RR aero engines invests around $1 billion in R&D - about half as much money as India's entire investment in LCA+Kaveri over nearly 40 years!

RR publicity video about Trent engine enhancement programme


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tru3gdQAuvo