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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Kaveri engine to fly futuristic unmanned aircraft

Kaveri test bed |The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)’s faltering project to develop an indigenous jet engine has sparked to life again.

With the Kaveri engine, born from this project, found short on power for the Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), the ministry of defence (MoD) has nominated the Kaveri to power the hush-hush Unmanned Strike Air Vehicle (USAV), a pilot-less bomber aircraft that the DRDO is developing.

The veil of secrecy surrounding the USAV project was thrown off on December 10, when the defence minister told Parliament that, “(the) Kaveri spin-off engine can be used as a propulsion system for (the) Indian Unmanned Strike Air Vehicle.”

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