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 by Christen Mccurdy Washington DC (UPI) Jun 30, 2020
General Electric was awarded $101.3 million to produce engines for F-15EX aircraft for the Air Force, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. The deal funds the purchase and delivery of F110-GE-129 engines for the aircraft. That includes installs, spare parts and monitoring engine monitoring system computers, according to the Department of Defense. In 2019 a Pentagon budget estimate showed that the Air Force intended to spend nearly $7.9 billion over a five-year period to procure 80 F-15EX aircraft to replace its aging F-15 fleet. The F-15EX is based on the F-15QA fighters Boeing has been contracted to produce for Qatar's military, the Air Force said. The newer plane is designed to handle a crew of up to two people and include the Eagle Passive Active Warning and Survivability System and the Suite 9.1 Operational Flight Program software. Work on the contract will be performed at GE's Cincinnati worksite and has an expected completion date of Nov. 30, 2022.
Airmen at Eielson AFB, Alaska, start building bombs for F-35As Washington DC (UPI) Jun 29, 2020 The first bombs built specifically for F-35A fighter planes were made earlier this month at Eielson Air Base, Alaska, the Air Force announced on Monday. About 70 bombs were constructed, using an assembly line process, by the munitions personnel of the base's 354th Fighter Wing Maintenance Squadron between June 15 and June 19. It had been about 10 years since combat-specific bombs, for A-10 Thunderbolt and F-16 Fighting Falcons, were built at the base, officials said. The process i ... read more
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