Pentagon Killing JSF F136 Engine

By Jen DiMascio jennifer_dimascio@aviationweek.com, Graham Warwick . graham_warwick@aviationweek.com .

The head of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is blasting U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s decision to “pre-empt” Congress and stop work on the General Electric/Rolls-Royce F136 alternate engine for the Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter.

“The views of the president and Secretary Gates are well known on this topic, but those opinions — however strong ...

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