NATO is set to receive its first Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft at Eindhoven airbase in the Netherlands over the coming weeks. The first two of eight MRTT aircraft to be operated jointly by NATO members Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Norway as part of the Multinational MRTT Fleet (MMF) are on course to be delivered in June, the agency reported on 14 May. Managed by the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA), supported by the Organisation for Joint Armament Co-operation (OCCAR), the MMF capability will provide the six participating nations pooled access to aerial refuelling (hose-and-drogue and boom/ receptacle), strategic passenger and cargo airlift, and aeromedical evacuation capabilities.
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