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L3 is upgrading USAF C-130Hs to meet new air traffic requirements, and is offering the service to export operators.

Meggitt has also developed a new real-time brake monitoring system.

The Dassault/Airbus team has unveiled its New Generation Fighter mockup as Spain joins France and Germany in the project.

New weapons and more computing power are set to expand the F-45's operational repertoire

The Tornado may have been retired from UK service, but could last for at least a decade more with the Luftwaffe

The family of weapon concepts is matched to the requirementa of the France-German SCAF and UK Tempest future fighter programs.

Pakistan is receiving two maritime patrol versions of the ATR72 for its navy.

After two years of talks Airbus and the A400M launch customers have agreed on a contractual realignment

Artificial intelligence and deep-learning technologies are making Rafael's smart bomb smarter

Gripen E cannot meet the Swiss requirement to only evaluate aircraft that are currently operationally ready

The UAE is the launch customer for the modified Global 6000.

Sikorsky has been awarded a contract to build the first six production VH-92As for the Presidtnial transport mission

The two industrial giants are to create Raytheon Technologies, potentially the world's No. 2 defense/aerospace company.

Fifth-generation fighters are due to replace Poland's Soviet-era survivors

Best-known as an air ambulance operator, FAI offers extensive business aviation services

An existing customer is taking two ACH145s and an ACH160 to renew its luxury helicopter fleet

The HH-60W is to replace the Air Force's aging HH-60G Pave Hawk fleet.

Racing legend and aviator Niki Lauda, 70, passed away on May 20.

Jet Maintenance has opened a new MRO operation at London-Oxford Airport.

Certification is expected by year-end with first delivery to follow in the last quarter of next year.

London Oxford Airport is improving its infrastructure to handle future growth.

Marshall Aerospace, which has operated at Cambridge International Airport since the 1930s, provides business aviation MRO there.

Early F-35s are to be assigned to an aggressor squadron to permit the replication of potential fifth-generation threat types.

Saab will undertake its share of T-X manufacture at a new facility to be built at West Lafayette, Indiana

The U.S. Navy has let four training contracts, including one to an ATAC-led team that will provide aircraft for training close-support air controllers.

F-35As have been flying operational missions as part of Operation Inherent Resolve. Now the aircraft have released weapons for the first time.

Poland is buying four AW101s from Leonardo to dramatically improve the capabilities of the Polish navy's air brigade

Tactical Air Support is modifying its recently acquired ex-Jordanian adversary F-5E/Fs with new equipment, including a Garmin G3000 flight deck.

F-16 production has moved out of Fort Worth to make room for expanded F-35 production capacity

Nearly three years after achieving IOC, the USAF's F-35As have been dispatched to the Middle East for the first operational deployment