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Leidos Taps Pratt & Whitney For Engine To Power Black Arrow Cruise Missile

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, June 16th, 2025

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Leidos Taps Pratt & Whitney For Engine To Power Black Arrow Cruise Missile

Pratt & Whitney's TJ150 turbojet engine. Photo: Pratt & Whitney

Pratt & Whitney on Monday said that Leidos [LDOS] has awarded the company a contract to supply TJ150 engines for the Black Arrow small cruise missile being developed to provide the Defense Department with an affordable strike weapons capability. The value of the award was not disclosed. The high-performance, single rotor, one-stage turbojet engine was used in a Black Arrow flight test last November from a U.S. Special Operations Command AC-130J aircraft (Defense Daily, March 31). The 150-pound thrust TJ150…

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