PARIS, July 30 (Reuters) - Airbus CEO Guillaume

Faury said the number of completed airframes still waiting for

delayed engine deliveries had risen to 60 and that the delays

now involved Pratt & Whitney on top of earlier problems

with rival CFM.

Speaking in a half-yearly media briefing, however, Faury

defended the company's target of raising deliveries by 7% to 820

jets for 2025 as a whole, which he said was supported by an

agreement with the engine makers to secure enough deliveries.

He also said Airbus was progressing towards the planned

opening of a second assembly line in China at end-2025 and, on

defence, pledged to stay onboard a Franco-German-Spanish fighter

project despite tensions with partner Dassault Aviation.

(Reporting by Tim Hepher, Editing by Benoit Van Overstraeten

and Ros Russell)