AIRBUS TIENE COMO OBJETIVO VENDER 210 A400M A ESTADOS UNIDOS/AIRBUS AIM TO SELL 210 A400M TO AMERICA

A pesar del revés sufrido en Estados Unidos, Airbus tiene como objetivo la venta de 210 A400M a los Estados Unidos.
Airbus Military, todavía espera un último movimiento de parte de Estados Unidos hacia Northrop Grumman Corp. en el concurso KC-X. . Airbus Military espera vender 500 aviones fuera de los países originales en los 30 años siguientes, incluyendo 210 en Estados Unidos. Las primeras entregas del A400M están previstas para Diciembre de 2012.
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Unbowed in its push into the lucrative U.S. defense market, Airbus said Monday it is aiming to sell about 210 of its much delayed A400M military airlifters to the United States.
The comments from chief of Airbus Military, come as parent company EADS still smarts from a move last week by U.S. partner Northrop Grumman Corp. to pull out of their combined bid for a massive $35 billion contract to build refueling tankers for the U.S. Air Force. Northrop explained it didn't think it could win, and EADS said it couldn't bid alone. The move has all but ensured Airbus' U.S. rival Boeing of victory — and prompted protests by French and EU leaders of alleged American protectionism. Airbus Military hopes to sell 500 of the planes to countries not in the original program over the next three decades — including 210 in the United States. Marketing promotion for the A400M will rev up in the second half of this year
The ambition for U.S. sales for the A400M shows Airbus will press on in the U.S. despite homegrown competition for military airlifters, notably from Lockheed Martin's C-130 and Boeing's C-17.
Airbus expects to start delivering the A400Ms sometime after December 2012 — or three years after its first flight, which was on Dec. 11. Four are expected to be completed this year.