A few days after the Ministry of the Armed Forces recognized France's critical dependence in terms of strategic air transport, Minister Florence Parly asked the…
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Category: Aircraft Refuelers
Covid-19: Air Force renounces heavy helicopters, but not modernized capabilities
A few months ago, the confirmation by Aviation Week that the French Air Force was ready to rent and then acquire CH-47 Chinook heavy helicopters had done great…
Read the articleCould the C-390 Millennium in-flight transport and refueling plane survive the Boeing / Embraer divorce?
The launch of the joint venture between the American Boeing and the Brazilian Embraer was to be one of the major events of the year in the aeronautical world. Reacting to the merger between Airbus and ...
Read the articleAs the Boeing KC-46 accumulates difficulties, Airbus demonstrates the automatic flight refueling capability of the A330 MRTT
We already talked about it on Meta-Defense: Airbus has been working for a few years on an automatic flight refueling system for its A330 MRTT, and had found a customer of…
Read the articleBoeing resumes production of KC-46 and P-8 after three weeks of shutdown
On March 25, Boeing announced that it would cease production of airliners at its various production sites in the Puget Sound region, near Seattle. Washington State…
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Since the launch of the USAF KC-46 Pegasus refueling program, technical problems, delays and additional costs have accumulated, to the point that the thirty aircraft already delivered today ...
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For Boeing, the setbacks of the KC-46 Pegasus program are more and more like an endless story. While the purchase of 179 new tankers is essential for operations ...
Read the articleBoeing suspends production of P-19 Poseidon and KC-8 Pegasus aircraft due to Covid-46
Since the day before yesterday, the factories of Boeing in the State of Washington (in the North-West of the United States) began to slow down their activity drastically after the state of emergency was declared in this…
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