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PAK-DA engines (and MCA?)

Does anybody know the engine plans for PAK-DA? Is variable cycle being considered?

I read the piece on AW´s Ares blog discussing the potential use of F135 engines on the currently paper NGB, and it made me consider the same possibility with PAK-DA and a SINGLE engine MCA (India). An uprated 117S/127 could power initial MCA flight testing (empty load), and the time-scales for MCA and PAK-DA aren´t really that far apart in the first place. It seems win/win for Russia and India, bringing down both development and operating costs for both platforms and likely an increase in capability vs. ´Snecma Kaveri´ in AMCA.

Pie in the sky? Probably…. I´d still like to know any info on engine plans for PAK-DA 🙂

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