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Airbus Military offers the military air transport world a modern,
multi-role military airlifter  which will replace the ageing fleets of C-130 Hercules and C-160 Transall in service with the air forces around the world. With the A400M, Airbus Military is setting new airlift standards and changing the way in which future military programmes will be managed.
Nine nations
More than 800 engines will
be required to fulfil the orders of 9 nations for 192 TP400-powered
A400M aircraft
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OCCAR
 OCCAR (Organisation Conjoint de Cooperation en matiere
d'ARmement) was established by Administrative Arrangement on
12th November 1996 by the Defence Ministers of France, Germany,
Italy and the UK. Its aim is to provide more effective and
efficient arrangements for the management of certain existing
and future collaborative armament programmes.
The Defence Ministers of the four founding Nations went on to
sign a Treaty, the 'OCCAR Convention'. The Convention has been
ratified by all of the member Nations and came into force on the
28th January 2001.
The Convention gives OCCAR its legal status, allowing it to
place and manage contracts, and to employ its own staff. In
support of the Convention, OCCAR has developed a comprehensive
set of management procedures (OMP) and an organisational
structure that will enable it to handle the business of
collaborative programme management.
The Organisation is open to other European Nations, subject to
their actual involvement in a substantive collaborative
equipment programme involving at least one OCCAR partner and
acceptance of OCCAR's founding principles, rules regulations and
procedures. In May 2003, Belgium became the fifth OCCAR member
state and also Spain is expected to join the organisation in the
frame of the A400M programme.
High level policy issues are dealt with by the OCCAR Board of
Supervisors (BoS), comprising the Ministers of Defence of the
member Nations. . The Ministers regularly delegate the business
of the BoS to their National Armaments Directors. The BoS is
supported by a Future Tasks and Policy Committee, a Finance
Committee and a Security Committee. In addition, Programme
Committees are established to supervise specific programmes on
behalf of the BoS."
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