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Fighting for Life in Military Markets

  • Magazine Feature Article
  • 16AERP02_02
Published February 01, 2016 by SAE International in United States
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  • English

Airbus Defence & Space is looking to revitalize and ramp up production rates of its military aircraft portfolio.

Visits to the Seville headquarters of Airbus Defence & Space (Airbus DS) have often reflected stormy prospects for the company's large-capacity A400M Atlas transport, which has suffered cost increases, delivery delays, technical issues, and order losses.

One media briefing in particular had been scheduled for May 2015, but by a cruel twist of fate, had to be cancelled at the last moment due to the fatal crash of a brand new Atlas aircraft on its first flight after emerging from the assembly line.