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Thanks for the providing the picture above, Jose.joseluiscel wrote: ↑01 May 2021, 00:12 Next baby, T-058, did first flight after conversion today from Getafe factory (LEGT), delivery is not far.
Fifth Multinational MRTT by José Luis Celada Euba, en Flickr
https://airrecognition.com/index.php/ne ... craft.htmlPOSTED ON THURSDAY, 08 SEPTEMBER 2022 09:37
The European fleet of Airbus A330 MRTT ("Multi-Role Tanker Transport") tanker and transport aircraft
will eventually increase from nine to ten aircraft,
thanks to a new investment of more than 270 million granted by Belgium.
This fleet, which bears the name of MMU (for "Multinational MRTT Unit"),
brings together six European member countries of NATO
(Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway and the Czech Republic).
It now has a "pool" of seven devices out of the nine currently ordered,
the last two having been delivered at the end of July 2022.
The STAR plan (for "Security & Service, Technology, Ambition, Resilience") approved this summer
by the Belgian government and by parliament, however,
provides for Belgium to invest,
in the second half of the decade,
in the equivalent of an additional MRTT in order to achieve a participation of "two MRTT equivalents".
Belgium will indeed be the “economic owner of the aircraft”
but it will be made available to all the countries which have participated financially,
namely Germany, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Norway.
The fleet will therefore increase from nine to ten aircraft,
the office of the Belgian Minister of Defense, Ludivine Dedonder, told the Belga agency on Monday.
The STAR plan sets an amount of 272.38 million euros for this additional contribution -
equivalent to a thousand flight hours per year -
for the period from 2025 or 2026 (for the budgetary commitment) to 2029,
year expected by the end of payments, according to the defense cabinet.
Tankers, essential for carrying out large-scale air operations,
are a rare system in the arsenal of European armies which are nevertheless trying to fill this gap:
thanks to the MMU, by the replacement in France of the 12 old American Boeing KC-135s by 15 Airbus A330 MRTTs and
in Spain by the planned conversion of three civil A330s into "tankers".
These planes are also capable of carrying out passenger and/or freight transport and medical evacuation (or Medevac in military jargon) missions.
Belgium joined the MMU project at the beginning of 2018, allocating an amount of 258 million euros, equivalent to a departing aircraft.
This guarantees him an annual quota of 1,000 flight hours for in-flight refueling missions, passenger transport -
including King Philippe for trips to Denmark, the Middle East or the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) -
and/ or freight and medical evacuation
(up to six patients in "high care" and simultaneously sixteen patients in "low care", as well as the necessary medical personnel).
Belgium to invest in second tanker aircraft for NATO fleet
23 March 2023
Belgium is investing an additional 265 million euros, the equivalent price of an Airbus A330 MRTT tanker aircraft,
in NATO's multinational fleet of refuelling and transport aircraft.
With this latest contribution, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's so-called 'MMF fleet' will grow to ten such A330s,
two of which are funded by Belgium.
The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, Norway and the Czech Republic
jointly established the "MRTT Multinational Fleet" (MMF).
Belgium signed an agreement in 2018 for a thousand flight hours per year at the cost of 258 million euros or the equivalent of one A330 MRTT.
The countries have already received seven of the nine ordered aircraft.
The ninth should be delivered in 2024,
and a tenth aircraft will later be added through the latest Belgian investment.
In Eindhoven, Belgian Defence minister Ludivine Dedonder announced
that the federal government's Council of Ministers approved the new 265 million euro investment on Wednesday,
bringing the Belgian contribution up to a total of two MRTT equivalents.
This additional investment will entitle Belgium to 2,100 flight hours annually from 2027.
https://www.afiklmem.com/en/press-relea ... -mmf-fleetAirbus Defence and Space (ADS) heeft AFI KLM E&M
geselecteerd om ondersteunende diensten voor de NAVO Multinational Multi-Role Tanker Transport Fleet (MMF) programma
te ontwerpen en te implementeren.
AFI KLM E&M zal reparatieservices bieden voor een breed scala aan onderdelennummers,
toegang krijgen tot een pool van reserveonderdelen en de levering van verbruik-/vervangbare onderdelen,
met speciale logistieke ondersteuning die zich uitstrekt tot de belangrijkste operationele basis van het MMF in Eindhoven .
Airbus Defence & Space selects AFI KLM E&M to provide Component support for the NATO MMF fleet
Paris, Amstelveen, 22 June 2023
A fully customized operational support package for the ten A330MRTT aircraft operated by the Multinational MRTT Fleet (MMF) program.
Airbus Defence and Space (ADS)
has chosen AFI KLM E&M to design and implement Component support services for the NATO MMF fleet.
To this end, AFI KLM E&M will provide repair services for a large range Part Numbers (P/N),
access to a replacement parts pool, and the supply of consumable/expendable parts,
with dedicated logistics support
extending to the MMF Main Operating Base (MOB) facility in Eindhoven (Netherlands).
In recent years, AFI KLM E&M has also been entrusted to provide
dedicated Component, Engine and APU support
for the Airbus A330/KC-30A MRTT used by the Royal Australian Air Force.
