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Volvo Aero's Norwegian subsidiary has namely posted a three-year
contract with the U.S. engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney, which
will supply engine F-35.
Today it was a ceremony at the Norwegian Defense Ministry in Oslo when
the contract between Volvo Aero and Pratt & Whitney signed.
The agreement is worth $ 3,000,000 and the production of combustion chamber housing of the engine that has the designation F135.
Combustion chamber House of scars that part of the engine that
distributes and regulates air flow and ensures that the combustion
chamber works as efficiently as possible, says Volvo Aero in a press
release on Monday.
Volvo Aero Norway is also the only manufacturer of axles for
low-pressure turbine for the F135 and an evaluation is in progress on
the production of other components.
If you look at the program's lifetime, there is great potential in
this Agreement. The manufacture of the F135 engine is expected to
continue until 2040, says Fredrik Fryklund, Communications Manager at
Volvo Aero Corporation in Trollhattan, Sweden to New Technology.
Production in Trollhattan however, not affected by this contract, but it still generates sales affecting the entire Volvo Aero Group.
F-35 produced by the U.S. Lockheed Martin, who buy the engine from Pratt
& Whitney, while the Gripen Next Generation takes its engine from
rival General Electric.
F-35 is called variously the Joint Strike Fighter and the Lightning II. Joint Strike Fighter is called the efterssom it has samprojekterats
together with a number of countries that have invested development money
in the project, including Norway.
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| Last Updated ( Wednesday, 11 May 2011 ) |
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