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U.S. Air Force Tests Light, Compact Electric Generators
Wright Electric has developed the 30 kW electric generators to supper the Air Force's need to have more agile and lean operations.
12 of Wright Electric's 30 kW generators can fit on a standard cargo pallet.
12 of Wright Electric's 30 kW generators can fit on a standard cargo pallet. (Image: Wright Electric)

Wright Electric has developed a 30 kW electric ground power unit for the U.S. Air Force’s Blue Horizons Project Dynamo. According to the company, the compact generator is half the weight and volume of standard Department of Defense units.

The Air Force wants to make its support equipment as light and lean as possible to give more flexibility in anticipated conflicts in which it has to operate in territory where it does not have tactical superiority. In these circumstances, aircraft may have to land and leave sites very quickly under what it refers to as the Agile Combat Employment concept of operations.