Attritable Aircraft Prompt Changes In Jet Engine Designs

Steve Trimble September 10, 2020
F-84’s J35 jet engine
The first generation of jet engines, such as the F-84’s J35 (pictured), came with 100-hr. time-between-overhaul ratings. Attritable engines may come with a similar service lifetime to achieve affordability targets.
Credit: U.S. Air Force
As a boundary-blurring line of “attritable” aircraft gains interest, the U.S. Air Force is taking a new look at traditional principles of jet engine design with the goal of defining a propulsion system that falls somewhere between expendable and fully reusable. Rolls, Pratt and Kratos enter...
Steve Trimble

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.

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