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Rolls-Royce F130 Engine for B-52 Fleet Begins Testing

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Rolls-Royce F130 Engine for B-52 Fleet Begins Testing
Sam Denison, a senior software developer at the 49th Test and Evaluation Squadron at Barksdale AFB, La., installs a beyond line of sight communications system, called IRIS, into a B-52 at Barksdale on June 22, last year (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Rolls-Royce said on March 1 that it has begun testing its F130 engine for the B-52 bomber at the company's outdoor testing site at NASA Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. In September 2021, the U.S. Air Force awarded Rolls-Royce a Commercial Engine Replacement Program (CERP) contract worth potentially $2.6 billion through fiscal 2038 for the re-engining of the Boeing [BA] B-52s with the F130 engine, based on Rolls-Royce’s commercial BR725 carried on Gulfstream [GD] G650 business jets (Defense Daily, Sept. 24, 2021). Rolls-Royce…

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