India’s Mini Gas Turbine Engine For UAV/UCAV Programme [Updated]

Here it is — India’s indigenous minaturised gas turbine technology demonstrator for UAVs/UCAVs. The Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE) — this photo is from a presentation they made not long ago — has according to the presentation completed “preliminary design, configuration and analysis” of the engine, under development ostensibly to power AURA, India’s stealth UCAV concept, and the Nirbhay cruise missile currently under development by the Advanced Systems Laboratory (ASL). Will update this post with specifications and more photographs in a few days.

15 thoughts on “India’s Mini Gas Turbine Engine For UAV/UCAV Programme [Updated]”

  1. Before other geniuses start proclaiming it is a Russian engine, please note it says 88 GMM N1.

    Shive, is this a prototype of the series K-10 with the Snecma core?

  2. its far more likely that this engine is for the NIRBHAY cruise missile. the AURA is a large ucav. perhaps an engine of the size of KAVERI is more suited for it.

  3. Of course its Russian, it says so on the 2nd picture: "Partnership for core technologies with M/S NPO Saturn, Russia"

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