Luxembourg looks set to expand its role in the European Multinational Multi-Role Tanker Transport Unit (MMU) by enabling the purchase of a ninth Airbus A330 Multi-Role Tanker-Transport (MRTT).

Starting this fall, Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC), a Textron company, will provide adversary air training for pilots at two U.S. Air Force bases.

Garmin on July 27 said that aviation applications were among the company’s web-based platforms returning to service following a cyberattack four days earlier.

The FCC has endangered a national treasure by allowing high-power terrestrial transmitters in the band of frequencies that includes GPS.

The policy changes means the U.S. government unilaterally reclassifies any unmanned aircraft system that flies slower than 800 km./hr. (497 mph)—including the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. MQ-9 and Avenger, and the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C—as a Category 2 aircraft under the Missile Technology Control Regime. 

U.S. Africa Command (Africom) has confirmed the presence of Russian Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer fighter bombers in Libya after releasing satellite imagery of the Libyan National Army-controlled Al-Khadim airbase.

A pair of French lawmakers are proposing a radical stimulus package to help the French aerospace and defense industry weather the novel coronavirus pandemic and likely economic crisis.

The Senate on July 23 voted 86-14 in favor of a $740 billion fiscal 2021 defense policy bill, setting the stage for committee staff to begin negotiating a conference deal with the House before entering August recess.