主题：印度军事新闻两则 -- 晨枫

Kaveri has been designed as a variable cycle-flat-rated engine, in which the thrust drop due to high ambient, forward speed is compensated by increased turbine entry temperature at the spool. This concept has been already demonstrated under high temperature and pressure conditions in DRDO's High Mach Facility. The engine is controlled by a Kaveri full authority digital control unit (KADECU), which DRDO claims to have developed and successfully demonstrated at its test bed.

Yet the complexities inherent in this challenge have belied this apparent confidence, forcing India to bring in turbine experts from Snecma in France and from US firms like Pratt and Whitney. The Indian DRDO has also been forced to look for a technology partner, and issue an RFP.

US industry sales officials like General William J Begert (USAF, ret.) of Pratt and Whitney are apparently telling India that they are prepared to help India make Kaveri work within a partnership framework, and so have Snecma executives like vice president international affairs Francois Courtot. No doubt this is true so long as appropriate payment is involved, and Gen. Begert is also reportedly discussing outsourcing of some PW F100 (F-16s, F-15s) engine parts to Indian firms. Meanwhile, General Electric was reportedly the slowest to respond to the RFP for foreign assistance.

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