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Brazil's Embraer sells six planes to help Guatemala's drug war
Tue Apr 9, 2013 9:16am EDT

* Embraer to deliver six Super Tucanos and command center

* Senegal orders three planes; fourth order from Africa

* Colombia called on the same plane in battle with the FARC

By Brad Haynes

RIO DE JANEIRO, April 9 (Reuters) - Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA has sold six Super Tucano light attack planes to Guatemala to bolster its fight against drug trafficking, according to a senior executive.

The Central American country has turned to the same turboprop aircraft that Colombia used in its battle against the FARC's guerrilla forces, Embraer's defense chief Luiz Carlos Aguiar said in an interview ahead of the LAAD defense industry show that starts on Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro.

Like neighboring Mexico, Guatemala has suffered the violence of drug cartels that ship cocaine to the United States, giving the country one of the world's highest murder rates. Guatemalan President Otto Perez, a former military officer, has been an outspoken critic of the prohibition policies fueling Latin America's drug war, but the Super Tucano order makes clear that the battle with cartels remains a priority.

Embraer will deliver six planes and a communications center in Guatemala, Aguiar said. It is Embraer's first order to include command and control operations since its defense unit incorporated Atech, a company specializing in the field.

Guatemala will be the sixth Latin American country flying Embraer's Super Tucano, and Aguiar said the company had also added a fourth African client. Senegal ordered three of the planes following purchases by neighboring Mauritania, nearby Burkina Faso and Angola in southern Africa.

Aguiar said that sales activity surrounding the Super Tucano has clearly accelerated since Embraer clinched an order from the U.S. Air Force to supply 20 of the light attack planes for counterinsurgency missions in Afghanistan.

"There are new clients, countries we hadn't even considered showing up on our radar," said Aguiar.

The U.S. Air Force authorized Embraer last month to move ahead on the $428 million order despite protests from rival Beechcraft.

Aguiar said it will take about seven months to set up a new plant in Jacksonville, Florida, building planes for the U.S. contract. The first Super Tucanos should start rolling off the line four or five months later, he added.

The LAAD Defense and Security Exhibition is a four-day event and takes place every two years.

BrasilPotência escreveu:-El embajador de brasil en Perú confirmo que la FAP a comprado ya 6 de 24 posibles Super Tucanos, lo hizo ayer en declaraciones en la Televisión Peruana.

NovaTO escreveu:

BrasilPotência escreveu:-El embajador de brasil en Perú confirmo que la FAP a comprado ya 6 de 24 posibles Super Tucanos, lo hizo ayer en declaraciones en la Televisión Peruana.

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O comandante da Aeronáutica, brigadeiro Juniti Saito, disse que o interesse pelo modelo turboélice de ataque leve, produzido pela Embraer, aumentou após a Força Aérea dos EUA confirmou a compra das 20 aeronaves.

A força Aérea americana, de acordo com o brigadeiro, também já autorizou a compra de mais 35 Super Tucanos, o que eleva o valor do contrato de US$ 428 milhões para cerca de US$ 1 bilhão.

"O comandante da Força Aérea das Filipinas me procurou hoje, durante a realização da feira internacional Laad para falar do seu interesse em adquirir o Super Tucano", revelou o comandante.

O brigadeiro ainda disse que vai se reunir com o comandante das Filipinas para falar sobre a experiência da FAB com a aeronave.

dafranca escreveu:

NovaTO escreveu:

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Onde saiu esta noticia?

O comandante da Aeronáutica, brigadeiro Juniti Saito, disse que o interesse pelo modelo turboélice de ataque leve, produzido pela Embraer, aumentou após a Força Aérea dos EUA confirmou a compra das 20 aeronaves.

A força Aérea americana, de acordo com o brigadeiro, também já autorizou a compra de mais 35 Super Tucanos, o que eleva o valor do contrato de US$ 428 milhões para cerca de US$ 1 bilhão.

"O comandante da Força Aérea das Filipinas me procurou hoje, durante a realização da feira internacional Laad para falar do seu interesse em adquirir o Super Tucano", revelou o comandante.

O brigadeiro ainda disse que vai se reunir com o comandante das Filipinas para falar sobre a experiência da FAB com a aeronave.

http://www.valor.com.br/empresas/307970 ... -e-senegal

dafranca escreveu:

NovaTO escreveu:

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Onde saiu esta noticia?

O comandante da Aeronáutica, brigadeiro Juniti Saito, disse que o interesse pelo modelo turboélice de ataque leve, produzido pela Embraer, aumentou após a Força Aérea dos EUA confirmou a compra das 20 aeronaves.

A força Aérea americana, de acordo com o brigadeiro, também já autorizou a compra de mais 35 Super Tucanos, o que eleva o valor do contrato de US$ 428 milhões para cerca de US$ 1 bilhão.

"O comandante da Força Aérea das Filipinas me procurou hoje, durante a realização da feira internacional Laad para falar do seu interesse em adquirir o Super Tucano", revelou o comandante.

O brigadeiro ainda disse que vai se reunir com o comandante das Filipinas para falar sobre a experiência da FAB com a aeronave.

http://www.valor.com.br/empresas/307970 ... -e-senegal

irlan escreveu:Acho que o Iraque iria pegar aquele avião tosco que parece aquele que joga remédio em plantações...só que adaptado para a guerra.

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irlan escreveu:Acho que o Iraque iria pegar aquele avião tosco que parece aquele que joga remédio em plantações...só que adaptado para a guerra.

Bitchcraft agrowar biofuel T6?

ST bota no bolso.

LIMA: Air Tractor goes on the offensive
26 Mar 2013

Air Tractor sees opportunities to market its AT-802U single-engined turboprop light-attack aircraft in Malaysia and Southeast Asia.

Speaking with Flight International at the Langkawi International Maritime & Aerospace Exhibition on 26 March, vice-president for business development Charles Miller said the type offers a "low-cost solution for reconnaissance and attack".

Miller claims that at an example cost of around $3m before the addition of sensors and weapons, the AT-802U is one-third the price of an attack helicopter.

Kuala Lumpur's lack of a light attack capability was highlighted in early March 2013, when 200 armed intruders from the Philippines infiltrated the country's eastern state of Sabah. The Royal Malaysian Air Force attacked the insurgents with 226kg (500lb) Paveway laser-guided bombs dropped from four BAE Systems Hawk 208s and four Boeing F/A-18D Hornet aircraft, with the targets having been designated by ground units.

Some experts have said that light attack aircraft, such as the Embraer EMB-314 Super Tucano, or attack helicopters would have been more suitable for the Sabah mission.

Miller says the AT-802U is easy to operate from primitive runways and requires little in the way of maintenance facilities.

"The Air Tractor is a good platform if you don't have unlimited funding resources," he says.

Texas-based Air Tractor has previously sold its armed AT-802U to the United Arab Emirates. Flightglobal's MiliCAS database records its air force as having received 18 of a contracted 23 examples by late 2012.