Saturday, 30 April 2011

GE's military engine business takes another hit

Not that GE Aviation?s military engine business needed any more bad news, but India has decided to eliminate two U.S. contenders from a hotly contested $11 billion competition to supply 126 multipurpose fighter planes, according to this article in the Financial Times. Boeing?s F/A-18 Super Hornet and Lockheed Martin?s F-16 Super Viper ? both of which are powered by GE (NYSE: GE) engines ? lost out to two European planes that are still under consideration by the Indian military. The French-made Dassault Rafale is powered by an engine from Snecma, GE?s French partner in their Evendale-based CFM International...

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