India is lining up three aircraft to replace its aging fighter fleet in the next decade. One is Russian, one is French and one, the Defense Ministry's technologists hope, will be Indian. The designers have now frozen the configuration of a proposed medium-weight Indian fighter that they expect to fly early in the 2020s. General Electric is the preferred supplier of propulsion for the twin-engine, stealthy Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), but the defense organization that is handling the project, the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), has opened negotiations with other suppliers. Although an ADA official who is closely associated with the project tells Aviation Week the preliminary design and therefore configuration will not now change, only an approximate size of the aircraft is disclosed: 20-25 metric tons, which is apparently the maximum weight.
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