Airbus

Nuclear Weapon Producers

Airbus is the exclusive provider of ballistic missiles used in the French nuclear arsenal.1

Nuclear Weapons |  Investments (Annual comparison) (2021), (2020), (2019)

Company Profile

Airbus is headquartered in the Netherlands but has its main production facilities in Germany, France and Spain.2 It is involved in the commercial aircraft, helicopter, defence, security and space sectors.3 Airbus is the exclusive provider of ballistic missiles used in the French nuclear arsenal through its participation in ArianeGroup and MBDA. ArianeGroup is a joint venture with French company Safran4 and MBDA is a joint venture between BAE Systems (37.5%), Airbus (37.5%) and Leonardo (25%).5 In the year ending 31 December 2021, Airbus Group generated revenues of € 52.1 billion.6

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Contact information

Airbus Group SE
PO Box 32008
2303 DA Leiden
The Netherlands
Website: https://www.airbus.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/airbus/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weareairbus/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/airbusgroup/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AirbusDefence
YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/user/airbusds

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Nuclear weapons

MBDA France, in which Airbus has a 37.5% stake, is the prime contractor for the ASMPA medium-range air-to-ground nuclear armed cruise missile for the French nuclear arsenal.7 MBDA is also contracted by the French government for work related to development of the ASMPA-successor, the ASN4G.8 The new weapon is scheduled to enter service in 2035 with range exceeding 1,000km, double that of the ASMPA. The French Directorate General for Armaments indicated that the ASN4G will be a hypersonic missile.9

 Airbus is the main contractor for the M51 submarine-launched ballistic missiles, as part of ArianeGroup.10 ArianeGroup states that its role in the M51 production “covers upstream research, design, development and production of the missiles, the land-based operating infrastructure and the command and control system on board the submarines. ArianeGroup is also responsible for the system support in service as well as end-of-life disposal”.11 Airbus is also contracted for the development of the third version of the ballistic missile, M51.3, to be completed around 2025.12

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Investments

Investments compared

Click on the institution to see if and how they've invested in the past. Red indicates a new investor in 2021. Green indicates investors that ended their involvement by 2021.

2022 Investments

2022

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2021 Investments

2021

81 financial institutions made $58,951.3 million available to Airbus in the research period January 2019-January 2021.

All forms of financing meeting the definition of substantive financial relationships are included in the report. This comprises financial institutions participating in loans and underwriting deals since 1 January 2019, as well as those involved in loans which have been closed before that date but have not yet matured before 1 October 2020. For (managing) investments in shares or bonds of arms companies, a group-level threshold of at least 0.5% of the outstanding shares or bonds at most recent filing dates is applied per financial institution.

2020 Investments

2020

53 Financial institutions made $35,062.37 million available to Airbus in the research period.

This comprises financial institutions participating in loans and underwriting deals since 1 January 2018, as well as those involved in loans which have been closed before that date but have not yet matured before 1 October 2019.

For (managing) investments in shares or bonds of arms companies, a group-level threshold of at least 0.5% of the outstanding shares or bonds at most recent filing dates is applied per financial institution.

2019 Investments

2019

56 Financial institutions made $35,062.4 million available to Aerojet Rocketdyne in the research period January 2017-2019.

This comprises financial institutions participating in loans and underwriting deals since 1 January 2017, as well as those involved in loans which have been closed before that date but have not yet matured before 1 October 2018. For (managing) investments in shares or bonds of arms companies, a group-level threshold of at least 0.5% of the outstanding shares or bonds at most recent filing dates is applied per financial institution.

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Notes

  1. Airbus Group, “2014 Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report”, Airbus Group, May 2015. Available: https://www.airbus.com/content/dam/corporate-topics/financial-and-company-information/airbus-group-crs-2014.pdf, viewed February 2020.
  2. Airbus in Europe (2022) | AIRBUS. Available at: https://www.airbus.com/en/our-worldwide-presence/airbus-in-europe.
  3. Who we are (2022) | Airbus. Available at: Who we are | Airbus.
  4. About us. Company profile | ArianeGroup. Available at: Company profile – ArianeGroup (Accessed: 8 August 2022).
  5. About Us (2022) | MBDA Systems. Available at: https://www.mbda-systems.com/about-us/.
  6. ‘Airbus Financial Statements 2021’, Airbus (2021), p. 25. Available at: AIRBUS FY2021 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
  7. ‘Budget Général. Programme 146. Projets Annuels de Performances. Annexe au Projet de Loi de Finances pour 2023: Équipement Des Forces’ (2023), RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE, p. 29. Available at: https://www.budget.gouv.fr/index.php/documentation/documents-budgetaires/exercice-2023/projet-de-loi-de-finances/budget-general/defense; ASMPA (2022) | MBDA Missile Systems. Available at: https://www.mbda-systems.com/product/asmpa/.
  8. ‘Budget Général. Programme 146. Projets Annuels de Performances. Annexe au Projet de Loi de Finances pour 2023: Équipement Des Forces’ (2023), RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE, p. 32. Available at: https://www.budget.gouv.fr/index.php/documentation/documents-budgetaires/exercice-2023/projet-de-loi-de-finances/budget-general/defense.
  9. ‘MBDA opens data centre in France for missile development’, AIRFORCE TECHNOLOGY, 5 April 2019. Available at: https://www.airforce-technology.com/news/mbda-data-centre-france-missiles/.
  10. Tran, Pierre, ‘France makes progress on refitting submarine for M51 missiles’, Defense News, 23 July 2018. Available at: https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2018/07/23/france-makes-progress-on-refitting-submarine-for-m51-missiles/; ‘Budget Général. Programme 146. Projets Annuels de Performances. Annexe au Projet de Loi de Finances pour 2023: Équipement Des Forces’ (2023), RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE, p. 34. Available at: https://www.budget.gouv.fr/index.php/documentation/documents-budgetaires/exercice-2023/projet-de-loi-de-finances/budget-general/defense.
  11. M51 (no date) | ArianeGroup. Available at: https://www.ariane.group/en/defense/m51/ (Accessed: 8 September 2022)
  12. ‘Airbus and Safran Agree to Space Launcher Joint Venture’, DefenseNews, 10 May 2016. Availabe at: https://www.defensenews.com/space/2016/05/10/airbus-and-safran-agree-to-space-launcher-joint-venture/; ‘INDUSTRIAL ISSUES RELATING TO THE MODERNIZATION OF THE M51 BALLISTIC MISSILE OF THE STRATEGIC OCEAN FORCE’, Ariane Group, Summer Defence Conference (2017). Available at: https://www.universite-defense.org/en/publications/the_2017_position_papers/ariane-group.htm .