This
delivery takes place in the third production year. Forty engines
are built and assembled every month by Microturbo in Toulouse,
southern France. Some 1500 engines remain to be assembled
for the missiles ordered by France, United Kingdom, Italy,
Greece and the UAE. New clients could be revealed in the months
to come.
The TRI60-30 powers the whole family of the first 100% european
cruise missile, which ranges from the French Air Force Apache
and Scalp EG to the Royal Air Force Storm Shadow which was
successfully used in Irak during operation Iraki Freedom.
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