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New Delhi: India has imposed multiple penalties on GE over the American engine manufacturer’s failure to deliver the critical F404-IN20 engines needed to power India’s indigenous fighter aircraft—Tejas MK 1A—ThePrint has learnt. The Indian Air Force (IAF) has desperately been waiting for the Tejas aircraft, which had a March 2024 delivery schedule. Contrary to earlier knowledge that March 2024 was the delivery start date for the engines, government sources said that GE was supposed to start delivering them in March 2023. Show Full Article The sources said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh flagged the engine delivery delay during their recent visits to the US. GE has promised to start delivering the engines by March/April 2025.On w...

New Delhi: IAF chief Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh flagged the delayed delivery of the Tejas fighters, saying that while our air warriors are better trained than the Chinese, India lags behind in technology and production capacity. He also underlined the need to bring in private industry into the fighter jet production in case the IAF requirements were to be met and hoped that state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) would keep its promise of manufacturing 24 aircraft annually, which, he said, would make up for the now seven-month delay. “We have done our analysis; we don’t have a design to go offensive unnecessarily. Only when we are pushed, we will be doing something. We have our plans in place. One thing I can positively say is that we are training much better than them. We have a m...

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