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Pratt Blasts Lockheed’s ‘Confusing and Misleading’ Adaptive Engine Advocacy
Breaking Defense ^
| June 22, 2023 at 7:17 AM
| Michael Marrow and Aaron Mehta
Posted on 06/22/2023 8:40:07 AM PDT by Fish Speaker
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PARIS — For the past two decades, F-35 manufacturer Lockheed Martin and F135 engine producer Pratt & Whitney have been tied together in a marriage over the fifth-generation fighter. But every marriage hits a rocky point, and a recent fight over the future of the engine has lifted tensions to a shockingly public level.
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06/22/2023 8:58:56 AM PDT
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Brian Griffin
(Sandy Berger - $50,000 fine + 2 years probation + 100 hours community service + clearance suspended)
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06/22/2023 9:03:02 AM PDT
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Brian Griffin
(Sandy Berger - $50,000 fine + 2 years probation + 100 hours community service + clearance suspended)
To: Fish Speaker
GE’s fighter aircraft engine division was created by Pentagon subsidies to introduce competition in the engine procurement. Looks like P&W was successful in killing GE’s competition in this battle and doesn’t want it to come back.
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06/22/2023 11:26:00 AM PDT
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pierrem15
("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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