Airbus // Universal Registration Document 2023

1. Information on the Company’s Activities

1.1 Presentation of the Company

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Heavy military transport has historically been driven by US policy and budget decisions, therefore has been dominated by US manufacturers and split in strategic and tactical aircraft segments. On Combat, Airbus activities take place through the contribution to the Eurofighter Typhoon, jointly with BAE Systems and Leonardo. The main competitors in the segment include Boeing, Dassault Aviation, Lockheed Martin, Saab and UAC. With regards to UAS platforms, Israeli and US firms are well established, with European and Chinese companies gaining in relevance. Major competitors include AeroVironment, Baykar Technology, Boeing, Elbit Systems, General Atomics, Israel Aerospace Industries, Leonardo, Northrop Grumman and Turkish Aerospace Industries. The market is also seeing the emergence of new, smaller companies worldwide, addressing specific and/or national requirements. There is room and need for synergies and partnerships between smaller and larger UAS companies. 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 Air Power 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 signed a letter of intent in 2021 with an option for four additional units. Further interest exists from various regions worldwide, including Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. Type Certificate and Initial Operating Clearance were achieved in 2013. Since then, 123 units have been delivered to eight nations as of 31 December 2023. The A400M has already been deployed in operations since 2014, accumulating more than 177,000 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. It is the first and so far only aircraft in the world to perform automatic air-to-air refuelling (A3R) with A boom. At the end of 2023, 78 A330 MRTT have been ordered by 15 national operators (more than 94% market share over the past ten years, excluding the US), with 59 platforms already delivered and operating worldwide, accumulating more than 250,000 flight hours in operation. In 2023, the Government of Canada awarded Airbus Defence and Space a contract for four newly-built Airbus A330 MRTT and for the conversion of five used A330-200s.

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