Thursday, April 19, 2012

NATO trio team up to boost air refuelling capacity

NATO trio team up to boost air refuelling capacity: Brussels (AFP) April 18, 2012


France, Germany and the Netherlands agreed Wednesday to team up in order to boost Europe's fleet of air-to-air refuelling aircraft, a key shortcoming identified by last year's NATO operation in Libya.

The three nations announced that they would lead efforts to share existing planes or acquire new ones, such as the Airbus 330 MRTT, hoping to boost their capacity in this field by 2020. France

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