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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

France Plans Buying Airbus Tankers; Optimistic on Rafale Sales

A330 MRTT (Royal Australian Air Force)France plans to buy airborne refueling tankers made by the military arm of Airbus, and there are no obstacles in the way of sales of French-made Rafale multirole combat jets to India, the United Arab Emirates and Brazil, Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said Monday.

"The purchase order [for the tankers] is likely to be made in 2013, for delivery four years later," Longuet told a meeting of aerospace journalists.

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