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Kratos will build the engines. Plane manufacturers usually do not build their own engines.
by constantcrying 4y ago
Kratos will build the engines. Plane manufacturers usually do not build their own engines.
- masklinn 4y agoAnd Kratos is currently a minor manufacturer of engines for missiles and expendable drones ("attritable UAVs" in their own words), not a manufacturer of airliner engines, or even bizjet engines.
- constantcrying 4y agoYeah, apparently actual large scale manufacturers, GE, Honeywell, Safran, etc. have no interest in producing supersonic engines. Gotta take what you can get I guess. Honesty I don't think you are wrong with the scepticism, if some actual large engine company took up the challenge I also would be more confident.
- hef19898 4y agoRolls Royce, the only company that ever made civilian super-sonic jet engines, for the Concorde, dumped Boom in September. So, it is not tha Boom doesn't have an engine OEM partner. They had, and that partner was not interessted beyond some initial research.
- masklinn 4y agoTechnically two other companies also did: - Kuznetsov Design Bureau, now JSC Kuznetsov, designed the NK-144 which powered the Tu-144S - Kolesov Design Bureau, now NPO Saturn, designed the RD-36-51 which replaced the NK-144 in the Tu-144D Both are now under the UEC state-owned group.
- hef19898 4y agoThe aerospace industry of the USSR is something, isn't it? Fun fact, they used the metric system for everything, including flight controls. Was, aparently, quite a problem for all countries that continued to use Soviet aircraft after they joined NATO.