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Air Force

Pentagon Fiscal 2024 Budget May Lay Out Future Path for F-35 Engine

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022

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Pentagon Fiscal 2024 Budget May Lay Out Future Path for F-35 Engine

Two U.S. Air Force F-35A Lighting IIs assigned to the 354th Fighter Wing at Eielson AFB, Alaska fly over the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex on April 14 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The Pentagon's fiscal 2024 budget may lay out a future path for engines for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter--a course of action that may upgrade the existing Pratt & Whitney [RTX] F135 engines or replace them with more fuel efficient ones that would give the fighter more range. At a May 17 hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee's defense subcommittee on the U.S. Air Force's fiscal 2023 budget request, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) asked Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall…

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