India’s ambitious fifth-generation fighter jet program faces a significant hurdle as the cost of crucial US-made engines has reportedly tripled, jeopardizing timelines and budgets. This reliance on foreign propulsion systems, also impacting the Tejas Mk2, highlights a persistent challenge in developing world-class fighter jet engines domestically. While other nations also depend on foreign engines initially, India’s pursuit of strategic autonomy hinges on mastering this complex technology.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
India’s ambitious fifth-generation fighter jet program faces a significant hurdle as the cost of crucial US-made engines has reportedly tripled, jeopardizing timelines and budgets. This reliance on foreign propulsion systems, also impacting the Tejas Mk2, highlights a persistent challenge in developing world-class fighter jet engines domestically. While other nations also depend on foreign engines initially,… Read More »Why India’s AMCA still needs a US engine, and so do many of the world’s fighters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":117723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}