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By Trefor Moss
The Indian government has effectively just handed one of the country’s flagship defense projects the pink slip.
The Kaveri aircraft engine was conceived in the 1980s as the power plant for the indigenously developed Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA). While New Delhi has pressed on with the Tejas, itself a troubled program dating back to the 1980s, it appears to have lost faith in the ability of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the state-run R&D outfit that designs much of India’s defense equipment, to deliver a working engine for the plane.
Instead, the government has finally decided to buy engines from U.S. firm General Electric, as Defense News reported over the weekend. GE has already supplied engines for the Tejas Mk I; the Mk II, an improved version of the Tejas which is still in the works, will now also be fitted with General Electric power plants.
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