PROVEN TECHNOLOGY - MATURITY FROM COMMON CORE
Derived from the World’s Only Operational 5th Generation Fighter Engine
Proven Performance for Safety and Value
The technologically advanced F135 engine is an evolution of the highly
successful Pratt & Whitney F119, power for the F-22 Raptor.
The F119 engine is the only fifth generation fighter currently
in operation, making Pratt & Whitney the leader in next generation
fighter propulsion.
The F135 improves upon the validated F119 core, integrating the F119's high-performance six-stage compressor and single-stage turbine unit with a new low-pressure spool. Together the F135 and F119 will have logged more than 600,000 flight hours before the F-35's introduction into operational service in 2012.
SINGLE-ENGINE SAFETY
"Furthermore, the engine Pratt & Whitney will provide for the F-35 is a derivative of the engine already being used on the twin-engine F-22 Raptor, whereas the engine GE will provide has never been used in an operational setting before. Past experience indicates that when new engines with no prior operational history are introduced into single-engine planes like the F-35, they have markedly inferior safety records to engines being introduced from other operational settings." Loren Thompson, Joint Fighter: The Case For Buying Two Engines Is Weak, 8/21/07
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