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 ...

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 ...

Shield AI and GE Aerospace have confirmed that the GE Aerospace F110-GE-129 engine will power the developmental X-Bat unmanned vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fighter aircraft. The pair have ...

CINCINNATI, Nov. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- GE Aerospace (NYSE: GE) and Shield AI have agreed to collaborate on propulsion technologies for Shield AI's new X-BAT vehicle program. Through the Memorandum ...

GE Aerospace GE recently secured an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Air Force to deliver F110-GE-129 engines for the latter’s F-15 and F-16 aircraft that are ...

Key Points and Summary – The F-14 Tomcat was built for a specific Cold War nightmare: long-range Soviet bombers and cruise ...

General Electric (NYSE: GE) has received a potential 10-year, $438.6 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide workload augmentation and offload support for F-110 engine module ...

Shawn Warren joined GE Aerospace’s team selling F110 engines in 2018 when the engine still had an uncertain future. Six years ago, Lockheed Martin was still working to lock up more orders for an ...

A crowd of people gather around a full-scale model of Turkish Aerospace Industries' TF-X at Paris Air Show on June 17, 2019. (Staff) ANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish government has officially launched a ...

GE Aerospace‘s F110-GE-129 engine with the Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle (AVEN) is to power Shield AI‘s future X-BAT drone fighter jet, according to a Memorandum of Understanding between the ...