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KC-30 Tanker order: EADS wins and the US rebel

Paris, France - A contract worth around 40 billion dollars

Louis Gallois, who has been leading since last year the aerospace group EADS, has received the approval of the French president Nicolas Sarkozy for winning one of the hardest contracts to achieve: the maxi-order of 179 tanker airplanes for the American defense worth around 40 billion dollars. Satisfaction expressed also by the German chancellor Angela Merkel and the French premier François Fillon. EADS...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1086554
Rome, Italy, 03/03/2008 15:54
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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