Inside the GTRE GTX-35VS Explained! #india #kaveriengine #drdo #iaf #defence #jetengine

Inside the GTRE GTX-35VS Explained! #india #kaveriengine #drdo #iaf #defence #jetengine

The GTRE GTX-35VS Kaveri is an afterburning turbofan engineis. This Engine development by the Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE), a lab under the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in India. On 23 December 2024, GTRE announced that the Kaveri engine's dry variant for DRDO Ghatak has been approved for in-flight tests onboard an Ilyushin Il-76 testbed aircraft for performance evaluation under varied flight conditions.

The Kaveri engine has been specifically designed for the Indian operating environment, which ranges from hot desert to the highest mountain range in the world.

The maximum thrust of the variant is 49–51 Kilonewton while that of the planned Kaveri 2.0 variant with afterburner is expected to be 73–75 Kilonewton.

A low-bypass-ratio (BPR) afterburning turbofan engine featuring a six-stage core high-pressure (HP) compressor with variable inlet guide vanes (IGVs), a three-stage low-pressure (LP) compressor with transonic blading, an annular combustion chamber, and cooled single-stage HP and LP turbines.

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