Airbus - 2022 Universal Registration Document

1. Information on the Company’s Activities / 1.1 Presentation of the Company

Market Trends The sale of aircraft is expected to remain stable in the transport and special mission aircraft segments and could grow for the heavy transport segment, where the A400M occupies a unique position. In combat, new collaborative programmes are underway for the development of new sixth-generation fighters. After-sales services are an important business for Military Air Systems and are continuously growing in line with the deliveries of A400M and A330 MRTT, on top of the existing robust revenue stream associated with Eurofighter and Tornado in-service support. On the unmanned aerial systems front, while defence will remain the largest sector, civil and institutional markets are growing steadily, especially in the smaller UAS tactical categories. Services verticals will offer increasingly interesting prospects as the market evolves. The governmental market especially for larger and advanced UAS features strong growth with significant opportunities in Europe, the US and Asia Pacific. Small and flexible UAS see wide application among armed forces and other homeland security agencies alike. Products and services FCAS – Future Combat Air System. The FCAS will be a system of systems combining a manned New Generation Fighter teaming with unmanned Remote Carriers, collaborating with upgraded existing and new platforms ( e.g. Eurofighter, A400M, MRTT, Eurodrone, etc.) orchestrated by a Multi-Domain Combat Cloud (“ MDCC ”). It will be an incremental journey to allow air forces and industry to tackle hand in hand the doctrinal and technological challenges lying ahead. As the largest and most ambitious European defence development for decades to come, FCAS will be key to Europe’s operational, technological and industrial sovereignty. FCAS will foster development of new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (“ AI ”), cyber, cloud, and drones. It will deliver increasing operational effects by leveraging the collaborative capabilities of all connected platforms across domains (air, land sea, space and cyber) bringing the next level of air power. FCAS will accentuate and unify multiple areas of Airbus Defence and Space portfolio and products. A400M – Heavy military transport. The A400M is the most capable new generation airlifter on the market today, aiming to meet the needs of the armed forces worldwide and potential operators for military, humanitarian and peacekeeping missions in the twenty-first century. The A400M can perform the job of three different types of military transport and tanker aircraft by providing different capabilities: tactical (short to medium range airlifter capability with short, soft and austere field operating performance), strategic transport (longer range missions for outsized loads) and tactical tanker. A total of 178 aircraft have been ordered so far. This includes the seven launch customer nations, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Turkey, the UK, as well as three export customers, Malaysia, Kazakhstan (two aircraft ordered in 2021) and Indonesia (two aircraft ordered in 2021, with contract enforcement in 2022). Additionally, Indonesia has signed a letter of intent in 2021 with an option for four additional units.

Type Certificate and Initial Operating Clearance were achieved in 2013. Since then, 115 units have been delivered to eight nations as of 31 December 2022. The A400M has already been deployed in operations since 2014, accumulating more than 140,000 flight hours in service. In 2019, a contract amendment was signed with launch customers on the Global Rebaselining of the A400M programme, under which all parties agreed to update the production plan and revise the capability roadmap. NSOC 2.0 Type Acceptance by customers was achieved in 2020, followed by NSOC 2.5 Type acceptance in 2021. The programme is now delivering in line with the revised schedule, and moving forward towards SOC3 (final development standard). The aircraft is designed to disrupt the difference between strategic and tactical transport by offering both capabilities in one. This saves both time and costs as customers can fly a long range strategic aircraft into a tactical zone of operation. A330 MRTT – Multi-role tanker transport. The A330 MRTT, a derivative of the Airbus A330-200 family, offers military strategic air transport as well as air-to-air refuelling capabilities. Its large fuel tank capacity (111t), a benefit of the design of the commercial platform, allows it to dispense fuel in flight to many receiver aircraft without the need for additional fuel tanks. This allows the entire lower deck cargo bay compartment to be available for freight (up to 37t), with the possibility to transport up to 27 standard civil LD3 containers, or up to eight 436L military pallets as well as the capacity to transport up to 300 troops in the upper deck cabin compartment, with the high level of comfort of a civil airliner. The A330 MRTT is equipped with state of the art refuelling systems, including an Aerial Refuelling Boom System (ARBS) and under-wing refuelling pods and has demonstrated wet contacts with the Automatic Air-To-Air refuelling (A3R) capability, for which certification by the Spanish National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA) was achieved in 2022. At the end of 2022, 67 A330 MRTT have been ordered by 14 national operators (more than 94% market share over the past ten years, excluding the US), with 56 platforms already delivered and operating worldwide, accumulating more than 250,000 flight hours in operation. In 2021, the Company answered a formal Request for Information for the KC-Y programme of the United States Air Force in partnership with Lockheed Martin, aiming at the replacement of the US Air Force tankers. Eurofighter combat aircraft. The Eurofighter multi-role combat aircraft (also referred to as Typhoon) has been designed to enhance fleet efficiency through a single flying weapon system capable of fulfilling both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions. The Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH shareholders are Airbus Defence and Space (46%), BAE Systems (33%) and Leonardo (21%). With regards to series production, the respective production work shares of the participating partners within the Eurofighter consortium stand at 43% for Airbus Defence and Space, 37.5% for BAE Systems and 19.5% for Leonardo. Airbus Defence and Space develops and manufactures the centre fuselage and the right wing and leading edge slats for all aircraft, and is in charge of final assembly of aircraft ordered by the German, Spanish and Austrian air forces. At the end of 2022, 680 Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft had been ordered by nine customers (UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait and Qatar). This includes the order

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Airbus / Universal Registration Document 2022