Adapting the engines for the next generation of Navy and Marine Corps amphibious landing craft to a water environment will be a challenge for the program, but builder Textron [TXT] is confident it has adequately accounted for any risk and expects to deliver the vehicles on time, a senior company executive said yesterday. Textron plans use the Rolls-Royce produced MT7 as the four engines that will go on the Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC) hovercraft under the contract awarded by the Navy…
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