Airbus parent EADS <EAD.PA> faced crucial decisions on transalantic defense projects worth $60 billion on Tuesday, as its shares rose on hopes its troubled efforts to diversify from jetliners ...

The A400M will replace the A310 tanker already deployed in German Operation “Counter Daesh”. On July 5, 2019, for the first time, the German Air Force deployed an Airbus A400M four-engine ...

The A400M tests involved the day and night refueling of two French Air Force H225M Caracal helicopters, ... Germany is the first nation that started to use operationally the A400M as a tanker, ...

A400M clears latest tanker trial with H225M. By Craig Hoyle 2019-09-24T14:47:00+01:00. Airbus Defence & Space says its A400M tactical transport has cleared a key test point on its way to securing ...

A400M nearing tanker clearance for French Caracal operations. By Craig Hoyle 2021-04-19T11:41:00+01:00. Airbus Defence & Space has completed the latest phase of an in-flight refuelling test ...

The test is aimed at expanding the refueling envelope of the A400M to refuel a wide variety of NATO aircraft, and follows the first ever refueling of a V-22 in early 2025. A German Air Force ...

The really bad news for the company came in its military aircraft division, where Airbus took a €2.2 billion ($2.3 billion) charge on its A400M military tanker/transport program. And that may ...

The Royal Air Force (RAF) has conducted its first air-to-air refueling of Typhoons with a German Air Force Atlas A400M in an operation aimed at increasing capability as part of an international ...

The production plan for the A400M is filled with eight aircraft a year until early 2029, the executive said. "We could increase, but I think we prefer having a stable production system," Dumont said.

Airbus Defence and Space (DS) has performed the first air-to-air refuelling (AAR) contacts between the A400M tanker-transport aircraft and a helicopter, the company announced on 24 September.

Unbowed in its push into the lucrative U.S. defense market, Airbus said Monday it is aiming to sell about 210 of its much delayed A400M military airlifters to the United States.