Because they've been assembling them in South Korea for their T-50/F-50 and FA-50 program for quite some time. Hanwha Aerospace has been assembling F-404 engines on their own, in South Korea. GE simply supplies a major portion of those F-404 engines and Hanwha Aerospace builds parts of the F-404 entirely on it's own under license from GE.S.Korea getting plenty of GE F404 engines
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India on the other hand is waiting on GE F-404 engines built in the USA.
No one in India thought that GE F-404 should've been assembled in India under a similar license, given the large requirement overall. Especially after the deal for 83 Tejas Mk1A was signed, but by then it would've been too late to set up the assembly line in India to deliver the F-404 engines for the first 16 to 24 of the Tejas Mk1As.
Statistics: Posted by Kartik — 26 Jul 2024 12:38