Pratt & Whitney workers producing F-35 rejected a contract offer amid broader financial pressures and operational ...

To the chagrin of Pratt & Whitney’s rivals, the only jet engine the F-35 family has flown with is the F135 turbofan engine. The F135 is well known for its 28,000 lbf (125 kN) of dry thrust and ...

[Courtesy: USAF] The U.S. military’s advantage in fighter jet propulsion is “essentially stagnating” without a new replacement engine for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike ...

Rolls-Royce had previously participated in various airplane projects, developing numerous engines that powered some of the finest aircraft in the U.S. military. However, with the F-35, the company ...

its engine exhaust plume ... It's possible, by extension, that a fighter jet like the F-35 could be tracked in a similar fashion. The implications of this are so severe that Logan Kygler, writing ...

Concerns have grown over the Air Force's planned purchase of 40 Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighters after reports of a "catastrophic engine failure." The U.S. Air Force unveiled results of an ...

Could the U.S. Air Force's plan to retrofit its F-35 fleet with new propulsion systems undermine the jet fighter's much vaunted interoperability?

The US Air Force calls it the “Frankenjet,” a stealth fighter stitched together from the parts of two F-35s wrecked in accidents that is now on duty and combat ready.

The Pratt & Whitney F119 powers the first operational fifth-generation fighter and represents the forefather to the more advanced F135 engine powering the F-35 Lightning II. It combines stealth ...

(U.S. Air Force) Lockheed Martin plans to fold technologies it developed in its unsuccessful bid for the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance platform into the F-35 and F-22 Raptor to ...

Pieces of a fractured engine rotor arm “cut through the engine ... an operational aircraft to the fleet,” a report from the F-35 JPO said. Scott Taylor, lead mechanical engineer for ...