Europe’s new Multinational Multi-Role Tanker Transport Unit (MMU) will fly its first aerial refueling training missions in August.

The House fiscal 2021 defense policy bill is on the floor this week, featuring 407 new amendments approved by the Rules Committee.

Nationalizing the industrial base to design, manufacture and sustain new fighters and bombers is not currently official Trump administration policy. But the topic dominated headlines last week anyway.

Indonesia has approached Austria as a potential buyer for the country’s unwanted Eurofighter Typhoons.

The UK has brought another seven aerospace companies into the Team Tempest consortium to develop technologies for a future UK-led combat air system.

The British government has signed a long-awaited contract with Airbus for the next-generation Skynet communications satellite.

The Pentagon has awarded Amfuel $14.9 million via the Defense Production Act Title III Agreement to strengthen the domestic aviation industrial base.

Former fighter market rivals Sukhoi and MiG have been reorganized within United Aircraft Corp. under the same management, and will cooperate on the next Russian fighter jet.