Buoyed by signing a $2.5-billion contract last September with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for 56 of its C-295 medium transport aircraft, Airbus said on Wednesday it “will display its comprehensive range of defence and space capabilities at DefExpo 2022”.
India’s flagship defence exhibition will be held from March 10 to 14 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Success has not come easily to Airbus in India. It has participated in several military aircraft tenders, and even won some, only to see them slip out of its hands.
Contests aborted by the MoD at the last minute include two mid-air refuelling tankers, in