The U.S. Air Force said that wind tunnel testing that finished in early June validated inlet redesign of the Rolls-Royce F130 ...

The U.S. Air Force's 2nd Bomb Wing here is to be the lead wing for acceptance of the RTX AGM-181 Long Range Standoff (LRSO) nuclear ...

Most notably, the B-52 will swap out its Pratt & Whitney TF33-P-3/103 turbofan engines for new commercially-developed replacements, using the Rolls-Royce F130 already used on the E11A and C-37.

The first B-52s ran on Cold War-era Pratt & Whitney TF33 engines. The Air Force will now fit new Rolls Royce-made F130 engines to the B-52Js as part of its Commercial Engine Replacement Program.

Under CERP, the Air Force is moving to put the Rolls-Royce F130 engines on the bomber to replace the B-52H’s Pratt & Whitney TF33-PW-103 engines, which the Air Force has said it wants to retire ...

B-52J and its new engines As we have reported here at The Aviationist, the bomber’s current Pratt & Whitney TF33-PW-103s, used since the 1960s, will no longer be supportable beyond 2030, so the ...

For power, the E-3 is fitted with four Pratt and Whitney TF33-PW-100A turbofan engines, which provide a combined 82,000 lbf. These are the same engines that also power the B-52, though that ...

RTX’s Pratt & Whitney opened its largest military engines facility, based in Oklahoma City and measuring 845,000 square feet in size. The $255 million investment, which officially opened October 1, ...

Pratt & Whitney, an RTX subsidiary, has opened its largest military engine manufacturing facility in Oklahoma City, according to a company statement issued on 1 October 2024. Boasting 845,000 square ...

The $255 million investment will enable Pratt & Whitney to meet the growing demands of both U.S. and global defense customers for the F135, F117, TF33, F100 and F119 engines.

But the plan to replace the B-52’s current Pratt & Whitney TF33 engines with Rolls-Royce F130 engines and replace the radar with Raytheon’s active electronically scanned array radar, called ...