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Firebusting Airbus A400M Completes Series of New Test Drops

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A firebusting Airbus A400M demonstrator has completed a series of new test drops during an independent assessment in Nîmes-Garons, France.    The Airbus A400M, fitted with the company’s Roll-on/Roll-off (Ro-Ro) firefighting kit, carried out tests to determine the distribution accuracy of the equipment and concentration of retardant upon reaching the ground.  The independent assessment was conducted in April 2025 by the Entente-Valabre’s Test and…
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When, in July 2022, Airbus mentioned encouraging tests of a removable module dedicated to firefighting and installed on board an A400M "Atlas", the General Directorate of Civil Security and Crisis Management [DGSCGC] was skeptical, even if using a transport aircraft against forest fires... This article Airbus welcomes the success of the latest A400M firefighting tests appeared first on Zone Militaire.

Airbus Defence and Space today announced the successful completion of a series of test launches and demonstrations of its A400M fire-fighting demonstration kit in Saarbrücken-Garons, France. The objective of this test campaign was to conduct an independent evaluation of the effectiveness of the A400M fire-fighting kit. The tests were conducted by the Centro di Test e Ricerca delle Ente-Valabre (CEREN), a French public body approved and approved …

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Revista Defensa Infodefensa.com broke the news in on Thursday, June 26, 2025.
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