The turning point came when DRDO's Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE) selected Azad Engineering to manufacture and assemble the Kaveri dry engine, India's first indigenously designed and developed jet engine. GTRE didn't pick Azad out of patriotism — they picked them because hardly anyone else in the country could handle the complex multi-axis machining and forging an aero-engine core demands. If a single blade fails at 15,000 RPM under extreme heat, the engine destroy