The U.S. Army wants a new advanced 3,000 shaft horsepower turbine engine to its fleet of Black Hawk and Apache helicopters. For that, it selected the Advanced Turbine Engine Company (ATEC), a joint venture of Honeywell and Pratt & Whitney, to accomplish the task.
By: Tech. Sgt. Andy Dunaway, U.S. Air Force [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
ATEC will have to come out with an engine that’s 50 percent more powerful, 25 percent more fuel efficient, and provide 20 percent longer engine life over the current engine.
This isn’t so much of a selection as a continuation of the evaluation process. GE was simultaneously awarded a similar contract for their competing GE3000 engine.
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