US major General Electric has won the bid for supplying engines for the Indian Light Combat Aircraft programme. The deal is estimated to be worth over 600 million US dollars.General Electric pipped its European competitor Eurojet for the deal after DRDO, which is developing the LCA's mark II version, formally announced that the American major's was the lowest bid in the tenders. GE had offered its GE F-414 engine as an alternative to its GE F-404 engines that are fitted in the first batch of LCAs that IAF would receive in a couple of years from now.