Pratt & Whitney To Power Korean F-15Ks

Written on April 29, 2008 – 9:47 pm | by Frontier India Strategic and Defence |

Pratt & Whitney has been awarded a contract to provide engines to power new F-15K fighter jets for the Republic of Korea Air Force. Pratt & Whitney will provide engine kits to Samsung Techwin for local
assembly under the terms of the contract.

Pratt & Whitney’s F100 is the sole propulsion system for F-15s of the U.S Air Force, Japan Self-Defense Force and Israel Defense Force. It has been powering F-15s since first flight in 1972, and for the past 36 years. The F100-PW-229 has accumulated almost a million F-15 flight hours .

To date, the F100-PW-229 powered aircraft fleet has logged more than 963,000 flight hours in more than 16 years of operational service.

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