Other bad news for Boeing. While the numbers certainly satisfactory can hide in part that the manufacturer has not achieved its objectives in 2011, the Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said Monday that France will purchase Airbus refueling planes in 2013.
If France had not officially heard so far left that it would not be acquired from the U.S. Boeing, Gerard Longuet said now that this option is off the agenda.
Exchange of "good" processes?
Recall that in early 2011, the Pentagon awarded a contract for tanker aircraft from 35 billion to Boeing ... at the expense this time of the subsidiary of European aerospace and defense group EADS.
Speaking at a meeting with the Association of Professional Journalists of aeronautics and space (AJPAE), Gérard Longuet, for his part said that the will of France was much to buy A330 MRTT ( Multi-Role Tanker Transport) Airbus.
Note that industry sources indicate in turn that if France had planned to rent a second aircraft-refueling tanker to the United Kingdom for budgetary reasons, then registering as part of the Defense Agreement Anglo-French military intervention in Libya would have convinced Paris of interest to develop independent capabilities.
In the end, Paris could buy five to seven tanker aircraft, to replace the Boeing C-135 ordered in 1960 by General de Gaulle, information that the newspaper Challenges unveiled on September 21.
It is true that the A330 MRTT seems to be a great device, as shown in the list of clients - often considered difficult - while 28 units have already been ordered by Australia, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
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