Spain order 6 additional Airbus A400M bringing its fleet to 33 Aircraft.

Source

https://www.opex360.com/2026/02/16/la-force-aerienne-espagnole-disposera-de-six-avions-de-transport-a400m-supplementaires/

The Aircraft is assembled in Seville, Spain

The Countries with the biggest order and fleet would are

1st France with close to 60 units

2nd Germany with 53 unitis

3rd Spain with 33 units

4th The United kingdom 22 units

5th Turkey 10 units

6th Belgium 7 units

7th Indonesia and Malaysia with 4 units each

8th Kazakhstan 2 units

9th Luxembourg 1 unit

There are negociations underway with other Countries for upcoming orders.

Also the A400M will get an upgrade and go from 37 Tons payload capacity to 45 Tons.

So we got about 200 of those big boys in Europe, but can’t effectively support Ukraine to secure its sky? Even after 4years of war?!

what do you need 200 of those for at the same time anyway?

Maybe I just don’t see the use for it, but knowing they are partially built in Spain, this just seems like an economic boost without any purpose.

Edit: don’t really care about the downvotes, but I feel like I’m being misunderstood. My only point is that it should be priority to work on our weaknesses in Europes security rather than just spending money on random military equipment that we already have anyway. If we ever end up in a worst case scenario and have to send soldiers to war, I’d like to know they can rely on air defense and proper equipment (without hoping the US will come and save us) and not just a quick lift to the unprotected front. I’ve never seen a European military operation that needed 200 cargo planes at once but I do know we are almost completely dependant on the US, regarding air defense and other systems.

It would be nice if Portugal got some too

We are so ready for the A400M Gunship!