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These engines will go into the 18th lot of F-35 fighters being built by Lockheed Martin, largely at its facility in Forth ...
Rival engine makers Pratt & Whitney and General Electric Co <GE.N> say their almost epic struggle over a potential $100 billion engine market for the new F-35 fighter jet is giving them an odd ...
The F-35 program is under intense pressure due to severe problems with its critical Block 4 modernization. -The new TR-3 ...
The company said the engine would be taken off the test line, but the F-35 program office estimated it would take five days to determine root cause and any corrective action.
Welcome back the Fluctus Channel for a feature on the innovative and complex process of manufacturing powerful engines to ...
The F-35 program's spare parts woes go well beyond the F135 engine and threaten to present serious national security risks, as you can read more about in this past War Zone feature.
A Pratt & Whitney F135 engine hangs in Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) Sea Level Test Cell 3 at Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn., between test runs Sept. 2, 2021.
Bogdan made it clear it is too early to make any decisions about how engine improvements could be rolled into the F-35 program. "We have to take a look and see if they are 1) applicable and can be ...
F-35: Grounded Due to Engine Issues America’s most expensive defense program, the F-35, suffers yet another setback.
An F-35A Lightning II takes off on March 2, 2023, from Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. A maintainer at Luke left a flashlight inside the $14 million engine of an F-35 during maintenance. The mistake ...
Pratt & Whitney's deliveries of F135 engines are on hold while the U.S. military and contractors try to find the root cause of a Dec. 15 F-35 mishap.