page_title: Airbus
section_title: Military
hierarchical_section_title: Airbus / Products / Military
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Le premier Airbus A400M, entouré des employés d'EADS, durant la première présentation mondiale de l'avion (roll-out), célébrée à Séville le 26 juin 2008. Deutsch: Erster Prototyp des Airbus A400M, umgeben von Mitarbeitern der EADS, während des ersten feierlichen Roll-outs in Sevilla am 26. Juni 2008. English: The first Airbus A400M, surrounded by EADS employees, during the aircraft's world-premiere presentation (roll-out), celebrated in Seville on 26 June 2008. Español: El primer Airbus A400M, rodeado de empleados de EADS, durante la primera presentación mundial de la aeronave (roll-out), celebrada en Sevilla el 26 de Junio de 2008.
context_page_description: Airbus SE is a European multinational aerospace corporation. The 'SE' in the name means it is a societas Europaea, which enables it to be registered as European rather than Dutch. As of 2019, Airbus is the world's largest airliner manufacturer and took the most airliner orders. Airbus is registered in the Netherlands; its shares are traded in France, Germany and Spain. It designs, manufactures and sells civil and military aerospace products worldwide and manufactures aircraft in the European Union and various other countries. The company has three divisions: Commercial Aircraft, Defence and Space, and Helicopters, the third being the largest in its industry in terms of revenues and turbine helicopter deliveries.
  The company's main civil aeroplane business is conducted through the French company Airbus S.A.S, based in Blagnac, a suburb of Toulouse, with production and manufacturing facilities mostly in Europe but also in China, the United States and Canada. Final assembly production is based in Toulouse, France; Hamburg, Germany; Seville, Spain; Tianjin, China; Mobile, United States; and Montreal, Canada.
context_section_description: In the late 1990s Airbus became increasingly interested in developing and selling to the military aviation market. It embarked on two main fields of development: aerial refuelling with the Airbus A310 MRTT (Multi-Role Tanker Transport) and the Airbus A330 MRTT, and tactical airlift with the Airbus A400M Atlas.
  In January 1999 Airbus established a separate company, Airbus Military SAS, to undertake development and production of a turboprop-powered tactical transport aircraft, the A400M. The A400M is being developed by several NATO members, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Turkey, and the UK, as an alternative to relying on foreign aircraft for tactical airlift capacity, such as the Ukrainian Antonov An-124 Ruslan and the American C-130 Hercules. The A400M project has suffered several delays; Airbus has threatened to cancel the development unless it receives state subsidies.
  Pakistan placed an order for the Airbus A310 MRTT in 2008, which will be a conversion of an existing airframe as the base model A310 is no longer in production. On 25 February 2008 Airbus won an order for three air refuelling MRTT aircraft, adapted from A330 passenger jets, from the United Arab Emirates. On 1 March 2008 a consortium of Airbus and Northrop Grumman had won a $35 billion contract to build the new in-flight refuelling aircraft KC-45A, a US built version of the MRTT, for the USAF. The decision drew a formal complaint from Boeing, and the KC-X contract was cancelled to begin bidding afresh.
caption: The first A400M in Seville, 26 June 2008
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