{"id":5682,"date":"2018-06-03T19:16:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T19:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2018-06-06T20:21:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T20:21:13","slug":"rolls-royce-to-provide-v-22-osprey-engines-to-u-s-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/rolls-royce-to-provide-v-22-osprey-engines-to-u-s-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce to provide V-22 Osprey engines to U.S. military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"st_headline title\"><strong>Rolls-Royce to deliver V-22 Osprey engines for U.S. Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Rolls-Royce Corporation will deliver engines to the U.S. military used in V-22 Osprey vertical take-off aircraft engines, the US Department of Defense said.<\/p>\n<p>Rolls-Royce has won $28 million modification contract to exercise an option for the procurement of 15 production AE1107C engines for the V-22 Osprey for the Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>Rolls-Royce will deliver 15 production AE1107C engines, including seven for the\u00a0Marine Corps, six for the Navy and two for the Air Force, the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #a80000;\"><a class=\"tpstyle\" style=\"color: #a80000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Contracts\/Contract-View\/Article\/1536660\/\" target=\"_blank\">Defense Department confirmed<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The contract work will be performed in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is expected to be completed in May 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The AE1107C engines weigh nearly 971 pounds and deliver 7,000 shaft horsepower. Rolls-Royce has produced more than 860 of the engines.<\/p>\n<p>Made by Bell-Boeing, the V-22 Osprey is a joint service multirole combat aircraft utilizing tiltrotor technology to combine the vertical performance of a helicopter with the speed and range of a fixed-wing aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>With its rotors in vertical position, it can take off, land and hover like a helicopter. When airborne, it can convert to a turboprop airplane capable of high-speed, high-altitude flight. This remarkable combination allows the V-22 to fill an operational niche unlike any other aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolls-Royce to deliver V-22 Osprey engines for U.S. Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force The Rolls-Royce Corporation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/bell-boeing-v-22-osprey-fleet.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1tE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5684,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions\/5684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}