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The current gov will fund development once current kaveri proves itself otherwise we would have to solely rely on jv for even basic 4 gen engine of Tejas. Tech would come from there then kaveri would be improved in order to replace f404.the thing is, govt still treats engine development like some road construction project where they have to deliver something that resembles the product on paper, they don't want to take risk, in the process of a engine development there would be many failure, our babu class for whatever reason doesn't want to face with failures .
As I said here
Complete indigeneous F404 replacement will come up in 5-6 years while 110-120kn class engine would take 10-12 years. As per samir v kamat this will happen if gobermint is willing to fund infrastructure this is were there will shatters.
The cost for development Infrastructure including testbeds, manufacturing plants machining toolings & mfg processes, testings Facilities certification would be exorbitant i suppose it would still cost less than a jv with france which was initially thought to be around 5 billion we even see 6-7 billions in media. It could exceed even that.
However what is then left is the adaptive cycle tech as no such thing would come with k10 it is unclear as we are looking for to long. But there's high possibility of jv happens as drdo has already expressed there desires for adaptive cycle given the jv partners are working on 6th gen jets it seems likely but full tot seems unlikely along with hot section.
Anyways, government instead wants to avoid this hassle which doesn't guarantee 100% as per them and wants to get into a jv which would guarantee the invested money wouldn't result in failures like with kaveri but they forget the Infrastructure needed to test them. Are they willing to fund that Infra in jv is a questionable. Or they just want to rely on france for that matters avoiding that cost while getting a engine to be put in production in india for AMCA,mk2. Unclear tho.
In short gov will only care if the existing kaveri proves itself then a newer kaveri will be initiated for error 404 replaced which has to again prove itself along with all new technologies developed for it. Then gov might be confident enough to put money in or maybe gov will fund the oldy goldy k10 idea once even the baseline current kaveri is certified & proved. While f404 replacement & k10 110-120kn class engine will be run in parallel. My words take it with bag of salt.
They will invest if they find it more feasible than a jv high stakes on kaveri right now. A jv is never gonna be feasible once we are invested they will just repeat same story as scorpene class subs.
That's actually a good scoring point for political parties make conspiracies out of it funding pvt sector muh corruption.there could also be political reasons like, if current govt fears that engine development can be used a political tool by opposition.
And I'm getting such vibes foreign lobbies wouldn't mind collaborating with opposition if supposedly jv doesn't happen and as I said in my above mentioned reply a pvt-public lead initiative is taken expect attacks hit jobs on them.
Secondly it's governments responsibility to explain in such a way every common man understands that's we would be spending more on if we don't make on our own. Foreign reliance during war could cause spare shortage. It isn't hard enough to convince even one who doesn't understand anything abt defence.