Capacity of 20 Tons of Water, 45 Meters long... What Is the A400M, This Military Transport Aircraft Transformed to Fight Fires?
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Waited as a reinforcement in the face of an exceptional forest fire season, an Airbus A400M must soon join the air assets mobilized against these fires. Still in the testing phase, this military aircraft must...
Rethought by Airbus, the aircraft can now accommodate a water drop kit or product delaying in its hold, with a volume equivalent to three Canadair. But with more limited use.
Fifteen military aircraft manufactured by Airbus with which the Government was expected to have available in the current campaign of forest fires for extinguishing tasks are not yet available because for the time being they have not been installed the fire-fighting kit as agreed months ago with the aeronautics company. Thus, they cannot join the other 56 air assets, between planes and helicopters, which form the central executive's device to ass…
France is overwhelmed by forest fires and by the lack of sufficient air assets to fight them. Hence, the government announced this Thursday that it will experimentally adapt a military transport aircraft, the Airbus A400M Atlas, to help put out fires like the one that has already forced to evacuate more than 20,000 people near Bordeaux.Continue reading...
To compensate for the lack of Canadair to fight the fires that hit the Hexagon, Laurent Nuñez announced the equipment of an A400M aircraft, a military transport aircraft "An aircraft
Laurent Nuñez announced on Monday on France Inter the equipment of the A400M, a military transport aircraft, to combat the numerous fires fueled by the high heats and droughts. These aircraft will make it possible to overcome the shortage of Canadair.
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