The U.S. Air Force has chosen to upgrade the fighter jet’s original and current engine – the Pratt & Whitney F135 – rather than develop an entirely new one. The decision, announced as part ...

A Pratt & Whitney F135 engine undergoes ground testing at Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee. (Rick Goodfriend/Air Force) WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is abandoning its efforts to develop a next ...

The president pitched plans on Thursday for a supercharged version of the F-35 with two engines, which would likely require building a new aircraft.

On March 3, Lockheed Martinand RTX’s Pratt & Whitneyannounced that the F-35Fighter Jet and the F135 afterbrning jet engine have reached a landmark 1,000,000 flight hours. For both firms ...

Pratt & Whitney has been suppling aviation power plants to the world since 1925, including some of the most advanced jet ...

On Monday, RTX Corporation‘s (NYSE:RTX) business, Pratt & Whitney, won a contract worth up to $1.3 billion to advance the F135 Engine Core Upgrade (ECU). The contract is expected to boost engine ...

EAST HARTFORD, Conn., March 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, announced today that the F135 engine has surpassed one million engine flight hours powering the F ...

That’s according to the contract issued by the Department of Defense, which says that 53% of the work on the F135 engine core upgrade will be carried out at Pratt’s home base in East Hartford ...

Sept. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (RTX) (NYSE: RTX) business, has been awarded a contract valued up to $1.3 billion to continue work on the F135 Engine Core Upgrade (ECU ...

Jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney says it has reached ... including the GTF line for Airbus commercial jets and the F135 for the military’s F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft fleet.