Air Warfare
Airbus A400M achieves paratrooper simultaneous dispatch certification
The Airbus A400M transport aircraft has achieved certification of its simultaneous paratrooper dispatch capability and completed full industrial development of the paratrooping deployment capacity.
The certification flight test was competed in May 2020 in partnership with the French defence procurement agency DGA, as well as the Belgian and French Armed ...
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