France, June 26 -- Airbus Defence and Space announced the successful completion of a series of test drops and demonstrations of its A400M firefighting demonstrator kit in Nimes-Garons, France. The objective of this test campaign was to conduct an independent assessment of the effectiveness of the A400M firefighting kit. The tests were conducted by the Entente-Valabre's Test and Research Centre (CEREN), a French public institution authorised and approved by the Ministry of the Interior to assess forest firefighting equipment, training personnel in France and abroad, and which is an international authority in this field.The test campaign, which ran at the end of April 2025, involved the A400M performing multiple drops over a designated sectio...