In 1978, just one manufacturer was supplying engines for the U.S. military’s F-14, F-15, and new F-16 fighter jets — and it wasn’t GE Aerospace. But what became known as the “Great Engine War” of the ...

The development began in the mid-1980s when the Air Force needed an engine to produce a thrust in the 129 kN class, while retaining the durability and reliability of the F100-PW-220 and F110-GE-100 ...

US firm GE Aerospace has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Shield AI to power the latter’s new AI-piloted fighter jet – the X-BAT. Under the new agreement, GE Aerospace will power X-BAT ...

Credit: Vital Archive/Alamy ROME—Shield AI has chosen GE Aerospace’s F110 engine to power its X-Bat vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) uncrewed aircraft system (UAS). Until now, the company has ...

GE Aerospace has secured a U.S. Air Force contract worth up to $5 billion to support foreign military sales of F110-GE-129 engines used on F-15 and F-16 fighter jets operated by allied countries ...

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Cincinnati’s General Electric Aerospace a contract worth up to $5 billion to provide the company’s F110-129 engines for Boeing F-15 fighters and Lockheed Martin F-16s ...

The General Electric Company's jet engine division, now known as GE Aerospace, has been at the center of engine development for jet fighters from the very beginning. During World War II, the U.S. Army ...

The GE Aerospace F110 jet engine on a test stand. The U.S. Dept. of Defense awarded $5 billion to GE Aerospace in a new contract to produce and service an undetermined number of F110 engines over a ...

Airmen from the facility troubleshoot engines by running them in a controlled environment. Taken on Mar. 3, 2017, the interesting photo in this post shows an F-16CM Fighting Falcon F-110 ...

The F110-GE-129 afterburning turbofan will be equipped with the Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle to provide thrust vectoring during VTOL operations and flight. Shield AI announced on Nov. 5, 2025 ...