The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) has ordered another Airbus A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT), bringing the multinational MRTT (MMF) fleet to ten aircraft.

This announcement follows Belgium's decision to increase the number of its flight hours in the program with an additional 1.100 flight hours per year. The multinational Multinational Multi Role Tanker Transport Fleet (MMF) will provide strategic transport, aerial refueling and medical evacuation capabilities to the six participating nations: Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Norway. These nations signed a memorandum of understanding allowing them to share the cost pro rata according to the national commitment of flight hours per year.

“Since the delivery of the first aircraft in 2020, and especially since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the MMF has been protecting European sovereignty and demonstrating its capabilities as a multirole tanker aircraft,” said Jean Brice Dumont, Head of Military Air Systems Division Airbus Defense and Space. "With this new order, NSPA has already acquired one of four optional MRTTs requested in addition to the nine aircraft previously ordered, demonstrating the high level of customer satisfaction."