European military engine consortium Eurojet and America’s General Electric (GE) submitted their offset proposals concerning the engine of the Light Combat Aircraft, Tejas. India’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) had issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) to these vendors for supply of 99 engines for the indigenous Tejas in July 2009. The contact is valued at $750 million. For Tejas, Eurojet’s EJ200 engine is competing with GE’s F-414 engine. Both the companies have reportedly got the approval from their respective authorities to meet key requirements of India’s MoD.1

• 1. Praveena Sharma, ‘Tejas engine offset offers come in’, DNA, December 12, 2009, at http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report_tejas-engine-offset-offers-come-in_...