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EADS is the leading supplier to the booming Indian commercial aviation sector with market shares of 70% for Airbus and 95% for ATR in their respective segments. Most of India’s private airlines and state-owned Air India have selected Airbus and ATR to develop their fleets. At the end of 2010, more than 180 Airbus aircraft had been delivered to Indian carriers, including 26 widebodies (15 A330-200s and 11 A310s), along with 54 ATR aircraft, mainly ATR72-500s. Since 2007, Air India has also taken delivery of four Airbus A310-300 freighter aircraft converted from passenger aircraft by EADS EFW. Cargo company Deccan 360 is already operating three A310-300Fs and will soon operate ATR72-200Fs after conversion.
Airbus Military has been shortlisted in several programmes of the Ministry of Defence with products such as the C-295 transport aircraft and the A330 MRTT in-flight refuelling aircraft.
In the space sector, Astrium is the leading foreign partner of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and its commercial arm Antrix, with a successful cooperation in telecommunications satellites. Every INSAT satellite belonging to ISRO has been put into orbit by the Ariane launcher.
In the defence and homeland security sectors, the Cassidian Division has positioned itself as an important contender for the delivery of platforms, systems and subsystems for the military and the public safety forces. In 2009, Cassidian received a contract to deploy a modern TETRA radio network to help secure the Indian Parliament in New Delhi.
Eurocopter has a market share of about 30% for commercial and para-public helicopters. One of Eurocopter’s biggest and most loyal customers for more than 20 years, Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited, is the largest civil operator of Dauphins in the world with a total fleet of 36, used for offshore, VIP transport and tourist flights. In the military sector, about half the helicopters have been delivered either directly by Eurocopter or by HAL, the helicopter Division of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, under a Eurocopter licence.
MBDA, an EADS affiliated company, has in the past supplied air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles to the Indian Air Force and Navy, and has been awarded contracts to supply SM39 anti-ship missiles for the Scoperne submarines. And since early 1980, BDL has produced more than 30,000 anti-tank guided missiles MILAN under licence.
