Belgian Prime Minister’s Office 28, issued a statement that the Cabinet has approved the Defense Dekeleimu than the proposed integration of European air transport command of the proposal, and signed a technology agreement.
Integration of European air transport command is a command of air transport force member standing body, there are already in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Belgium signed a letter of intent. Construction of the European air transport command of the principles of integration, members of the Air Force will own tactical and strategic delivery forces contributed, by the command of unified deployment in order to increase efficiency of use of Member States military transport aircraft.
Integration of European air transport command, based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, responsible for four members of the various aspects of air transport, including transport task scheduling and execution, training and flight safety. The command center will be put into use in July, is expected to begin on September 1 to exercise the functions of official operation on December 22.
Integration of the European air transport command of the current total of more than 170 military transport planes, including 13 long-range military transport aircraft Airbus A320 and A330, 120 Hercules tactical cargo aircraft TRANSALL and C130, aerial refueling Airbus A310, as well as other small aircraft , but no helicopter, flying a total capacity of 70 000 flight hours a year. The sovereignty of all military transport aircraft remain unchanged, maintaining the same ownership, deployment bases remain unchanged.
