France will order the first aircraft in a planned fleet of 12 Airbus A330 multirole tankers this year, with the goal of slowly replacing the nation's aging KC-135Rs and a handful of strategic airliners. The agreement, announced by Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian Nov. 20 and...
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