A single software update to the F-22’s engine is quietly keeping America’s stealth fighter combat-ready into the 2040s, and almost no one noticed

The F-22 engine is getting a secret software boost. Learn how data-driven updates are keeping the Raptor combat-ready into ...

A single software update to the F-22 Raptor’s engine is quietly keeping America’s first stealth fighter flying well into the 2040s

America’s most famous stealth fighter is getting an unusual kind of life extension. Not a new airframe. Not a brand-new ...

How a software update to the F-22's engine is keeping America's stealth fighter flying into the 2030s

As the Air Force rushes to produce the F-47, it is also upgrading the Raptor to keep it cutting-edge into the 2040s.
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F-22 Raptor: Pratt & Whitney’s F119 engine crosses million flight hours milestone

Aerospace company Pratt and Whitney announced that its F119 engine has officially surpassed one ...

Why the F-22 Raptor's square engine nozzles have never been copied in 20 years

In 2025, the second J-36 demonstrator was seen featuring what appears to be a return to the F-22's previously unique ...

Pratt & Whitney Has Pushed the F-22 Raptor Past 1 Million Flight Hours

Amazingly, it has been nearly three decades since the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor entered the world. The fifth-generation jet ...

RTX's Pratt & Whitney F119 engine surpasses one million flight hours

Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, announced today that the F119 engine has surpassed one million engine flight hours powering the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor. In achieving this milestone, ...
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US engine makers advance designs for sixth-generation fighter propulsion

The US Air Force is funding development of adaptive-cycle turbofans under the Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion programme. GE Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney (P&W) have advanced their designs for ...