‘Loyal wingman’ need drives EDF backing for new small turbofan design studies

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Source: Airbus

A lack of suitable European-built small turbofan engines for ‘loyal wingman’ applications that are also free of export restrictions has pushed the EU to consider funding the development of a new powerplant.

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