All three F-35 fighter variants are powered by Pratt & Whitney's F135 turbofan engine, and it's upgradeable tech will keep it ...

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 an… ...

A Pratt & Whitney F135 engine undergoes ground testing at Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee. (Rick Goodfriend/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s program to upgrade the F-35′s ...

Meanwhile, the Navy also announced Wednesday that it had awarded Pratt & Whitney a $186 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to fund sustainment of the F-35′s F135 engines.

The F-35's lone F135 engine produces a whopping 43,000 pounds of thrust. The F-22's engines are each less powerful, by contrast, but together create 70,000 pounds of thrust.

Jen Latka, vice president for Pratt’s F135 program, also told reporters the company is on track to finish designing the engine upgrade in mid-2025 and start testing it the following year.

--Pratt& Whitney, an RTX business, announced today that the F135 engine has surpassed one million engine flight hours powering the F-35 Lightning II. "The F135 engine plays a critical role in ...

Pratt & Whitney will be the sole provider of the F135 military jet engine, following a decades-long push by Connecticut’s congressional delegation to secure funding and protect jobs in the state.

The final Pratt contract,for $9.2 million from the Defense Logistics Agency, is for F100 engine case diffusers. In addition to the several Pratt & Whitney contracts, Windsor Locks-based Hamilton ...

Ten employees of United Technologies Corp's <UTX.N> Pratt & Whitney unit, including the head of its F135 engine programme, have left the company after an internal audit uncovered an ethics issue ...

A worn-down component in the forward section of United Technologies Corp's &lt;UTX.N&gt; F135 engine for the F-35 fighter jet may have caused the tip of a fan blade to break off during testing ...