So basically you are claiming you are not a consistent relaible source that can be relied upon as a source material, hence when you make a claim and then say the source is me its best not to take it to face value & treat it as a speculation it is, an educated guess in your words.
Essentially, yes. Most of my posts are based on facts. Sometimes I rely on speculations as I fill gaps between facts. And many times, my speculations turn out to be true. Time generally answers that.
For example, Safran's AMCA engine with 120 kN non-adaptive and 140 kN uprate are established facts. But VCE offered by both France and UK are also facts, they are just less well-known facts. We get such information down the grapevine as the configuration's already finalized. GTRE has to design the VCE, since it's part of the cold parts, their share of the work. France and UK will design the engine as VCE-ready from the outset.
What is speculation is the timeframe. VCE can come anytime in the future, but with Rajnath Singh's words, we can speculate that it's in 5-7 years, instead of 10 or 15 years. At this point, we need CMC, advanced thermal management, and AI integration to be considered truly 6th gen.
We know for a fact that we have only 1 advanced engine program, so the 6th gen roadmap is via the JV. And Singh told us the timeframe too. And we know for a fact we are developing foundational technologies for 6th and 7th gen engines.
We also know for a fact that a non-adaptive engine can be redesigned to VCE. The Americans have already done this, the Russians plan to do this too. So it's obvious we will do it too, since the JV is our only next gen engine, and the one after that is not necessary until the 2050s, even globally.
What's happening here is the already established fact of a two-phase engine program for 120 and 140 kN itself is being treated as speculation due to lack of knowledge of members. Essentially, completely clueless people attacking someone for making an educated guess connected to a gap within facts that the clueless people are ignorant about to the point that they are willing to throw everything out the window to stay true to their ignorance.
Your choices are to read, absorb, perhaps provide a proper well-thoughout rebuttal or be petty and jealous like Ignorants and resort to hubris and name-calling. I don't know if your intentions are the former or the latter. At least by bringing up CTi, even if going off on a tangent, it shows you tried.
