C-27 will come with winglets, uprated engines from 2017

Starting from late 2017, Alenia Aermacchi will roll out the C-27 with winglets and uprated Rolls-Royce AE 2100 engines as the baseline configuration.

Alenia C-27J Spartan, Italy - Air Force AN1383477
By Mike Freer – Touchdown-aviation [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons

One area of the flight regime that will benefit from the extra thrust of the engines is hot and high performance.

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