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Sintra escreveu:Os Sauditas finalmente assinaram o contrato para os 72 "Tiffies". Agora é oficial. São 123 milhões de dolares por avião, isto cobre a compra do avião propriamente dito, treino, logistica e, mais importante, a construção de uma fábrica na Arábia Saudita. Apenas os primeiros 24 sairão da fabrica da BAE´s na Grã Bretanha, os restantes 48 serão construidos no Reino Saudita.

A statement from the Saudi Arabian Defense Ministry released today (Sept. 17) confirms that the final contractual element of the government-to-government deal is now in place. It was followed several hours later by a short statement from the UK Defense Ministry.

The follow-on to the Al-Yamamah program, called Project Salaam, will be built around the purchase of 72 Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft. The last piece of the paper was signed on August 28th, and is thought to have been inked by Des Browne, the British Defense Secretary, and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi statement said the cost of the 72 aircraft was 4.43 billion pounds ($8.86 billion).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6998774.stm

Saudis buy Eurofighters from UK

Monday, 17 September 2007, 15:11 GMT 16:11 UK

Maintenance and munitions contracts are also expected
Saudi Arabia is to buy 72 Eurofighter Typhoon jets BAE Systems, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed.
The deal is worth about £4.4bn but contracts for maintainance and training are expected to take the bill to £20bn.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) dropped a probe last year into a sale of jets to the Saudis in the 1980s.

The UK government said this was on national security grounds, but reports said the Saudis had threatened to pull out if the probe went ahead.

Blackmail claim

The official Saudi news agency SPA says that the price paid per aircraft is the same that Britain's Royal Air Force pays for the aircraft.

UK-based BAE Systems said it welcomed "this important milestone in its strategy to continue to develop Saudi Arabia as a key home market with substantial employment and investment in future in-Kingdom industrial capability".

Critics attacked the decision to drop the SFO investigation, saying the government had put commercial interest before ethics and had given in to Saudi blackmail.

In addition to the price paid for the planes, there is also expected to be a lucrative deal for the munitions that go with them.

The negotiations had been overshadowed by a UK inquiry into allegations Saudi Arabia took bribes from BAE under a military-plane deal struck between the two nations two decades ago.

Britain's Serious Fraud Office last year investigated BAE Systems' £43bn Al-Yamamah deal in 1985, which provided Hawk and Tornado jets plus other military equipment to Saudi Arabia.

However the investigation was pulled by the British government in December 2006 in a move supported by then-prime minister Tony Blair amid statements about the UK's national interests.

Sintra escreveu:

A-29 escreveu:O que exatamente de logística será que contém esse contrato? Se for algo do tipo "peças de reposição suficientes para X anos de operação" talvez tenha até saído barato.

25 anos...

Só para terem uma ideia, a RAF está a vagar uma Base aérea completa (Coningsby) para os Sauditas albergarem o seu OCU ai. Se comparado este negócio com o dos Super Bugs para a Australia, até fica MUITO barato.

Australia signs Super Hornet fighter deal
By Peter La Franchi

Australia has signed US foreign military sales contracts worth approximately AUD$2.9 billion ($2.4 billion) for its acquisition of 24 Boeing F/A-18F Block II Super Hornet fighters.

The deal, first announced in March, will see the new fighter enter operational service with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) from 2010 as a replacement for its ageing General Dynamics F-111 strike fighters.

The Australian Department of Defense (DoD) says the aircraft contract will be followed by additional FMS awards later this year for weapons acquisition and type sustainment. The US Navy is coordinating the deals.

Australia is acquiring the Raytheon AIM-9X within visual range air to air missile as part of the Super Hornet programme, and is also considering new stand-off weapons as part of the same package.

Total project costs are expected to reach $AUD6 billion ($4.9 billion) over the next ten years. The Australian DoD says that figure includes acquisition, support and personnel costs.

Planning for Australian industry support arrangements is continuing. The DoD says it is now “engaged with the USN to ensure that the maximum potential of Australian Industry Involvement is achieved.”

The first RAAF aircrews are to commence Super Hornet training in the US in 2009.

“The Block II Super Hornet has considerable similarity in support, training and tactics to our current fleet of F/A-18 and therefore allows a relatively rapid and low risk transition for our current air combat force,” says the Australian DoD.

Europe`s EADS to bid for IAF tender for 126 fighters

Paris, Oct 04: European aerospace and defence company EADS, which manufactures Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft, is all set to enter the race for a contract of 126 fighter planes of Indian Air Force.

"We have received the RFP (request for proposals) of the IAF and we will be bidding by the end of the year," EADS Senior Vice President for South Asia Allain Letanoux said here.

The EADS manufactures Eurofighter Typhoon, a multi-role and swing-role combat aircraft, under a joint programme of France, UK, Italy and Germany.

Projecting Eurofighter as the "most capable frontline fighter available", Letanoux said EADS would offer transfer of technology as part of the package to get the deal.

The Indian government issued the RFP for purchase of 126 fighter aircraft about a month back.

Eurofighter Typhoon would be competing with F-16 of America's Lockheed Martin, Rafale of French Dassault, Gripen JAS-3 of Swedish SAAB and Mig-35 of Russian Aircraft Corp.

Hoping that the Indian government would select Eurofighter, Letanoux said "We are more flexible than Americans. Transfer of technology will be a key element of the EADS bid... I am sure the Indian authorities will choose the best planes."

The company presents Eurofighter as an "extraordinary plane" with highly agile air superiority and air-to-surface, multi-role/swing-role capabilities.

Asked whether he apprehended that growing political relations between India and the US might torpedo EADS' ambition, he said "we also have good relations with India."

Bureau Report

The EADS manufactures Eurofighter Typhoon, a multi-role and swing-role combat aircraft, under a joint programme of France, UK, Italy and Germany

Bolovo escreveu:É só balancear. Caças fodas como o Eurofighter em menor número e caças menores como o Gripen em maior número (os suecos tem um off-set porreta demais). Tudo uma questão de equacionar.

Tigershark escreveu:Com certeza!Ficaria feliz(e muito) com 36 Typhoons e 64 gripens.

trabuco escreveu:

Tigershark escreveu:Com certeza!Ficaria feliz(e muito) com 36 Typhoons e 64 gripens.

Isso sim seria o ideal!!!

32 EF-2000 e 64 Gripens ou F-16s (fazer jogo político com os americanos).

Quem defende Rafale, deveria defender mais do que tudo o EF-2000.

trabuco escreveu:

Tigershark escreveu:Com certeza!Ficaria feliz(e muito) com 36 Typhoons e 64 gripens.

Isso sim seria o ideal!!!

32 EF-2000 e 64 Gripens ou F-16s (fazer jogo político com os americanos).

Quem defende Rafale, deveria defender mais do que tudo o EF-2000.