The European Union (EU) plans to establish what it calls a Military Mobility Transport Group in a move that could be a boon to Airbus by paving the way for additional A400M orders.
“Our peacetime rulebook is not fit for military mobility. Neither is our peacetime infrastructure,” European Defense and Space Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said Feb. 17. “It could take weeks or even months to move troops from one end of Europe to the other. That will not deter Putin, that will invite Putin,” he warned in a speech in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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“The question is not whether we can afford to invest in military mobility. The question is whether we can afford not to.”
