{"id":7471,"date":"2020-01-18T06:43:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T06:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=7471"},"modified":"2020-01-18T06:43:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T06:43:07","slug":"csir-collaborates-with-drdo-to-produce-the-saras-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/csir-collaborates-with-drdo-to-produce-the-saras-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"CSIR collaborates with DRDO to produce the Saras engine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)\nwill collaborate with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)\nto produce an indigenous engine for the Saras light passenger aircraft being\ndeveloped by it. The prototype version of the Saras, being developed by the\nCSIR\u2019s National Aeronautical Laboratory (NAL), is powered by two Canadian Pratt\nand Whitney PT6A turboprop engines, that are not only mounted on the rear of\nthe fuselage instead of the wings, but also face rearwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current\nAffairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DRDO has been developing the Kaveri engine that was\ninitially meant for the Light Combat Aircraft since the mid-80s, but has not\nbeen successful. While some technologies and components were validated, there\nwere problems with some. While various types of aero-engines have been produced\nunder licence in India, an indigenous engine has not been developed. According\nto some experts, developing a turboprop for a transport aircraft is less\ncomplex than developing a jet engine for a fighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will collaborate with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to produce an indigenous engine for the Saras light passenger aircraft being developed by it. The prototype version of the Saras, being developed by the CSIR\u2019s National Aeronautical Laboratory (NAL), is powered by two Canadian Pratt and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[65],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-january-2020","tag-current-affairs-on-memorandum-of-understanding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7473,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471\/revisions\/7473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7471"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=7471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}