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F135 Turbofan: The Incredible Engine Powering The F-35

The F135 turbofan engine from Pratt & Whitney powers every variant of the F-35 Lightning II (making it one of the 8 fighter jets with Pratt & Whitney engines powering them) and is the most advanced ...
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RTX Finishes F135 Engine Upgrade to Improve F-35 Capabilities

RTX Corporation’s RTX business segment, Pratt & Whitney, recently accomplished the Preliminary Design Review for the F135 Engine Core Upgrade (“ECU”), thereby confirming that the ECU's design is on ...
Morningstar

RTX's Pratt & Whitney F135 engine surpasses 1 million flight hours

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-35 ...
Flightglobal

P&W completes preliminary design review for F135 upgrade

Pratt & Whitney has completed the preliminary design review under the F135 Engine Core Upgrade (ECU) initiative, setting the stage for improved performance and durability. The ECU will support the ...
Hartford Business

Here’s where work on Pratt’s $1.3B F135 engine contract will be done

More than 60% of the work on Pratt & Whitney’s major new fighter jet engine contract will be carried out in Connecticut. That’s according to the contract issued by the Department of Defense, which ...
Yahoo

Connecticut’s Pratt & Whitney gets $1.3B contract for F135 engine upgrades

The U.S. Department of Defense awarded a $1.3 billion contract to Pratt & Whitney late Monday, giving a major boost to a program that will modernize the engines used in military fighter jets and help ...