{"id":612357,"date":"2023-10-25T10:59:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T05:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=612357"},"modified":"2023-10-25T13:10:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T07:40:37","slug":"airbus-lands-1-27-bn-french-air-tanker-upgrade-service-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airbus-lands-1-27-bn-french-air-tanker-upgrade-service-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus lands $1.27 bn French air tanker upgrade, service deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus said on Monday it had signed two contracts valued at 1.2 billion euros ($1.27 billion) to provide capability enhancement and in-service support of France&#8217;s fleet of A330 MRTTs (Multi Role Tanker Transports).<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s biggest planemaker said in a statement it had struck the deals with France&#8217;s Directorate General of Armaments (DGA) and Directorate of Aeronautic Maintenance (DMAe). &#8220;We are honoured to contribute to one of France&#8217;s most strategic capabilities,&#8221; said Jean-Brice Dumont, Head of Military Air Systems at Airbus Defence and Space.<\/p>\n<p>The programme will convert the French A330 MRTT into a high bandwidth communication relay node, with the aim of being connected in all circumstances, including jammed environments and extreme weather conditions, Airbus said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus said on Monday it had signed two contracts valued at 1.2 billion euros ($1.27 billion) to provide capability enhancement and in-service support of France&#8217;s fleet of A330 MRTTs (Multi Role Tanker Transports). The world&#8217;s biggest planemaker said in a statement it had struck the deals with France&#8217;s Directorate General of Armaments (DGA) and Directorate of Aeronautic Maintenance (DMAe). &#8220;We are honoured to contribute to one of France&#8217;s most strategic capabilities,&#8221; said Jean-Brice Dumont, Head of Military Air Systems at Airbus Defence and Space. The programme will convert the French A330 MRTT into a high bandwidth communication relay node, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}