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.
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.