It can operate on all grades of jet fuel, diesel and gasoline and can be easily interchanged between the Crusader and Abrams vehicles. It is also a lightweight engine, at 2,300 pounds, and only 51 inches in length, providing considerable space and weight savings. The LV100 will provide continual and smooth power, rapid acceleration, quick starting even in cold climates, no visible exhaust and quiet running for the Army's ground units. In a second phase of the program, the Honeywell/GEAE team expects to produce 3,400 engines, with 2,700 to be integrated onto the Abrams in a retrofit program beginning in 2004 and 720 for the Crusaders beginning in 2005. Revenues will be divided equally between Honeywell and GE Aircraft Engines (GEAE), a business unit of General Electric Company. Army has awarded a three-year, $196 million contract to a Honeywell-General Electric team to develop, produce and test 24 LV100-5 gas turbine engines for the Crusader self-propelled artillery system and as a retrofit engine for M1 Abrams main battle tanks.
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