{"id":51378,"date":"2014-12-10T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=fe7ad3abede7175211ff983ac0ba9110"},"modified":"2014-12-10T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T09:58:00","slug":"news-story-rolls-royce-uk-wins-320-million-french-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=51378","title":{"rendered":"News story: Rolls Royce UK wins \u00a3320 million French contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>On 20 November French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced the acquisition of 12 Rolls-Royce Trent 700-powered Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport Aircraft (MRTT).<\/p>\n<p>The A330\/Trent 700 configuration is in service with the Royal Air Force (<abbr title=\"Royal Air Force\">RAF<\/abbr>). <\/p>\n<p>Michael Ward, Head, <abbr title=\"UK Trade and Investment\">UKTI<\/abbr> Paris, commented that:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The decision will benefit both UK and French economies, and offers the opportunity for commonality between <abbr title=\"Royal Air Force\">RAF<\/abbr> and French Air Force tanker fleets, including training and support.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The French acquisition followed two years of sustained support to the company\u2019s campaign from UK Trade and Investment Defence and Security Organisation (<abbr title=\"UK Trade and Investment Defence and Security Organisation\">UKTI DSO<\/abbr>), <abbr title=\"UK Trade and Investment\">UKTI<\/abbr> Paris, British Consul, Bordeaux, and British Embassy, Paris. The deal is worth a total of \u20ac3 billion (\u00a32.38 billion), of which \u00a3320 million is revenue to Rolls Royce UK.<\/p>\n<p>The fleet will provide the French Air Force with high altitude air-to-air refuelling capability. Benefits of the Trent engine include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>excellent performance in hot-and-high conditions<\/li>\n<li>low through-life fuel consumption and operating costs<\/li>\n<li>low margins on noise and emissions limits<\/li>\n<li>low infra red signature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The contract with the Direction G\u00e9n\u00e9rale de l\u2019Armement (DGA\/French Ministry of Defence), enshrined in France\u2019s 2013 strategic defence review (Livre Blanc) and ensuing Military Programming Law, is a success for European cooperation. Aircraft assembly by Airbus at Toulouse, avionics design and integraton by Thales, and Trent 700 engines by Rolls-Royce UK.<\/p>\n<p>First delivery is planned for 2018.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>To find out how <abbr title=\"UK Trade and Investment Defence and Security Organisation\">UKTI DSO<\/abbr> can help you export see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/defence-and-security-exporting-guide\">defence and security exporting guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French Ministry of Defence announces the purchase of 12 Airbus tankers with engines by Rolls-Royce UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}