Kaveri has many advanced and technologies which would help India to develop jet engines independently. But unfortunately this project was failure due to several problems. The turbine n the engine has a tendency to "throw" the blades off, which required securing blades from SNECMA.
Due to repeated snags in the engine resulted in the 2003 decision to procure the uprated F404-GE-IN20 engine for the eight pre-production Limited Series Production (LSP) aircraft and two naval prototypes. ADA awarded a deal of $105 million to General Electric in February 2004 for development engineering and production of 17 F404-IN20 engines, delivery of which is to begin in 2006.
In mid-2004, the Kaveri failed its high-altitude tests in Russia, ending the last hopes of introducing it with the first production Tejas aircraft. Becasue of all this Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) orderen 40 more IN20 for the first 20 production aircraft, and openly appealed for technical assistance in the development of Kaveri. In 2006 ADA awarded a contract to SNECMA for technical assistance in rectifying problems in Kaveri.
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