United Launch Alliance Gets BE-4 Rocket Engine

The corresponding statement is published on the company’s Twitter page.

According to RIA Novosti, Atlas family missiles are equipped with Russian RD-180 engines.

It is noted that the Vulcan carrier is being created to replace the engines from Russia, it is assumed that the BE-4 power plant will work in the first stage.

In September 2018, a military expert at Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine, Alexei Leonkov, commented on RT media reports that Blue Origin, Amazon’s owner Jeff Bezos, would supply new Blue Origin BE-4 engines for the United Launch Alliance booster rocket, which should replace Russian RD-180.