the thing is you can't trust what HAL says. the company also claims they have 100% TOT for the SHAKTI turbo shaft engine. guess what, only 15% are manufacturing in india and only MINOR components the rests key components are from snecma plant in france.
Indo-US Red Flag Air Force Exercise Lecture
an american airforce officer commenting on how InAF completely depending on russia to repair/overhaul their al-31ps engines. what happen to the ToT? are you going to say the officer is clue less.. the CIA info to him are all bs..LOL
from Prasun K Sengupta, a defense analyst that has connection with indian contractors.
according to, 2010 moscow defence brief, india is still receiving knock-down kits from russia fro assembling. no where near 100% indigenous as claimed. i thought they had full ToT long time ago...