Honeywell Cooling Technology to support Next-Gen F-35 jets

Honeywell has successfully demonstrated the ability to upgrade the cooling capacity of the Lockheed Martin F-35’s Power and Thermal Management System (PTMS) to 80kW, exceeding the current 32kW cooling needs of the U.S. military and its allied partners. The F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office (JPO) had indicated the need for more cooling power in the F-35 to support advanced avionics in future generations of aircraft.

Honeywell’s PTMS is a low-risk solution that has been the supplier for the F-35’s PTMS for the past two decades, and the recent demonstration positions the company to support future mission systems’ modernization requirements without the need for expensive changes to the aircraft.

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