Twelve nations finalized an agreement at NATO on Wednesday to jointly buy and run three giant transport planes to fill an airlift shortfall that has dogged international missions from Afghanistan to Sudan.
Under the agreement, reached after two years of negotiations, they will jointly acquire three giant Boeing C-17s and place them at new operating base in Hungary early next year under the command of a U.S. officer, said NATO spokesman James Appathurai.
NATO has long suffered a shortage of large transport planes, and the deal reached by 10 of its members and two non-NATO members _ Sweden and Finland _ is aimed at addressing that problem.
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