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South Korea pours $3.4B into a homegrown KF-21 engine with 16,000lb thrust

South Korea is moving from licensed fighter engines to a fully indigenous powerplant, committing $3.4 billion to a new ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

South Korea commits $3.4 billion to 16,000lb-thrust indigenous KF-21 fighter engine

The engine will serve as the powerplant for the KF-21 Block 3 fighter, which South Korea plans to field around 2040 as part ...
The National Interest on MSN

Why Do Fifth-Gen Fighter Jets Use “Thrust Vectoring”?

Thrust vectoring—essentially redirecting the plane’s exhaust flow—allows modern fighters to quickly change direction, giving ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

Russia tests new 35,000-pound-force engine on its fifth-gen stealth fighter

Russia's Su-57 stealth fighter has completed its first flight with a new fifth-generation engine to improve the fighter's ...

Rolls-Royce Wants To Make India Its Third Home Base For Engine Production

UK-based Rolls-Royce plans major investment in India to develop next-gen engines for combat jets, eyeing it as their third ...
Flightglobal

Northrop Grumman scramjet engine produces record thrust in test

A scramjet engine made by Northrop Grumman set a record for the highest thrust produced by an air-breathing hypersonic engine in US Air Force history. Ground tests of the 5.5m (18ft)-long engine were ...
Flightglobal

A220 operators told to limit engine thrust at high altitude

Operators of Airbus A220s are facing operational limitations of the twinjet's engines, following several serious incidents involving powerplant failure. Operators of Airbus A220s are facing ...
New Scientist

Next-generation ion engine sets new thrust record

An ion engine has smashed the record for total thrust in a NASA test. The successful test means the engine could be used in future NASA missions. Ion engines work by accelerating electrically charged ...
ZDNet

Boeing 787 loses thrust in an engine, lands early

Now we know the Boeing 787 Dreamliner can fly on one engine and it wasn't from a test. ZA001, the first 787 to fly, experienced an "uncommanded loss of thrust" in one of its two Rolls Royce Trent 1000 ...
SpaceNews

Blue Origin Demonstrates Engine Thrust Chamber

Blue Origin, the reusable rocket startup created and bankrolled by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, successfully fired the thrust chamber of a hydrogen-fueled engine being developed with help from a ...