Kaveri Engine for LCA

This engine is specifically designed as per the indian operating environment, which ranges from hot deserts to high mountains. With overall pressure ration of 27:1 it can help Tejas(LCA) to supercruise (fly at a supersonic speed without afterburner) as per GTRE. It has 13% higher thrust than already used prototypes of GE on the flying machine. Tejas will have such two engines with fully vectoring nozzles which could make the vertical tail redundant. (Tejas do not have a horizantal tail). An indigenous Fully Authority Digital Engine Control(FADEC) unit called Kaveri Digital Engine Control Unit(KADECU) has been developed by Defence Avionics Research Establishment(DARE).

With above specificaions Kaveri seems to be a successful initiation for India in indigenous production of Jet Engines.