Anatomy Of U.S. Army Improved Turbine Engine Program

The U.S. Army’s Improved Turbine Engine (ITE) program is developing a more powerful and fuel-efficient 3,000-shp-class turboshaft to replace the General Electric T700 powering the Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk and Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopter. General Electric and ATEC (Advanced Turbine Engine Co., a team of Honeywell and Pratt & Whitney) are developing competing engines. Requirement  The ITE is required to improve performance in hot-and-high conditions ...