France Plans Buying Airbus Tankers

"The purchase order [for the tankers] is likely to be made in 2013, for delivery four years later," Longuet told a meeting of aerospace journalists. He gave no details of the number of Airbus multi-role tanker transport, or MRTT, planes that are likely to be ordered, but noted that the tankers are well-adapted for "mutualized" operations with the armed forces of other friendly countries.

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