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 ...

EAST HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The F-35 Lightning II successfully completed its first afterburner test powered by Pratt & Whitney's F135 ...

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 ...

Pratt & Whitney’s F135 fighter jet engine will continue to power the Air Force’s jet fighters as part of President Joe Biden’s 2024 budget. Three of Connecticut’s congressional representatives praised ...

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 ...

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 ...

When United Technologies and Raytheon combine later this year, they will form the most broadly diversified, technically proficient aerospace and defense supplier in the world. With $74 billion in ...

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 ...

President Joe Biden’s budget proposal would help protect tens of thousands of Connecticut jobs at Pratt & Whitney as well as its suppliers by supporting the modernization of the F135 engines for ...

An F-35B takes off from the amphibious assault carrier Tripoli. Deliveries of new F135 engines for the fighters are suspended amid an investigation into an F-35B's mishap in Texas. (MC1 Peter Burghart ...