Singapore, (DefenceTalk.com): Airbus and Singapore have agreed to collaborate on the development of the A330 SMART Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) for the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF). The SMART MRTT program will develop, certify and implement Automatic Air-to-Air refueling (A3R) capability as well as enhanced maintenance solutions for the A330 MRTT. With this […]

DefenceTalkThe Royal Australian Air Force took a significant step forward in airlift capability when two giant RAAF aircraft conducted air-to-air refueling for the first time. The refueling trials took place during a two-hour sortie off the Queensland coast, between a KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) and a C-17A Globemaster III cargo aircraft. The aircraft […]https://www.defencetalk.com/first-successful-air-to-air-refueling-contact-for-raaf-kc-30a-to-c-17a-67412/

DefenceTalkA frustrated IAF has asked the defence ministry to take a decision, one way or the other, on its long-pending case for the almost $2 billion acquisition of six Airbus-330 midair refueling aircraft or tankers to boost the strategic reach of its fighters and bombers. Stressing the critical operational necessity for fast induction of the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/indian-air-force-wants-mod-to-make-on-decision-on-mrtt-purchase-66566/

DefenceTalkThe Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has completed the first fuel transfer with the air refuelling boom from a RAAF KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) to a US Air Force (USAF) F-35A Joint Strike Fighter at Edwards Air Force Base in California. A total of 59 contacts were conducted of which five contacts transferred 43,200 […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raaf-kc30a-tanker-refuels-f-35a-fighter-in-first-test-65511/

DefenceTalkAirbus Defence and Space has congratulated the Royal Saudi Air Force on its successful deployment of eight F-15 fighters to the USA for Red Flag 2014 through the use of its new fleet of Airbus A330 MRTT Multi Role Tanker Transports. In a letter to RSAF Commander Gen Fayyadh Al Ruwaili, Philippe Galland, Head of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/saudi-air-force-completes-transatlantic-f-15-deployment-for-red-flag-2014-59868/

DefenceTalkSingapore said Thursday it would replace its aging KC-135R air refueling tankers made by US firm Boeing with Airbus’s A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft. Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen told parliament of the decision to acquire the MRTT, which is based on the civilian A330 plane. Ng did not say how many Singapore will […]https://www.defencetalk.com/singapore-to-buy-airbus-refueling-tankers-for-air-force-58959/