What will future 🇪🇺capabilities of medium and outsized cargo aircraft look like?
✈️EDA is supporting 2 #PESCO projects to develop the next generation tactical air mobility & a European solution for the transport of outsized & heavy cargo.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1619989967509520384
🛫Future Medium-Size Tactical Cargo (FMTC)
🇫🇷 project coordinator
🇩🇪🇪🇸🇸🇪 project members
📤#PESCO wave 4
Tactical cargo aircraft are the workhorses of the air forces for logistics, medical evacuations, & special missions.
FMTC - next generation tactical air mobility capability
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1619989970630111232
🛫Strategic Air Transport For Outsized Cargo (SATOC)
🇩🇪 project coordinator
🇨🇿🇫🇷🇳🇱 project members
📤#PESCO wave 4
3-step approach
1 identifying a sufficient number of project members 2 harmonising requirements
3 identifying & agreeing on a European solution for outsized cargo
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1619989973436100609
EDA’s support to FMTC & SATOC, which will run for an initial 24 months, will be dedicated to harmonising the requirements of the project members & drafting a joint document of precise common guidance for research & development for the envisioned platform
⏩#PESCO moving forward
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1619989976195960832
