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Sunday, January 20, 2013

Agreement Finalized for US Engines for Indigenous Indian Fighter Jet

Tejas LCA |India has finalized an agreement for 99 GE 414 engines to power its indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA).

This is the first, and significant, engine contract for GE Aviation to power fighter jets for India and the LCA will be the first combat aircraft in the inventory of the Indian Air Force (IAF) and Indian Navy with engines from the US.

Both services have US-made transport aircraft though and all the three US engine majors, GE, Honeywell and Pratt & Whitney have supplied power units for them.

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