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LAAD : Boeing looks to establish KC-390 logistics system



By : STEPHEN TRIMBLE RIO DE JANEIRO


Boeing will propose the establishment of a global logistics system to support the Embraer KC-390 airlifter and tanker to be modelled on the C-17's " sustainment partnership " programme, a top Boeing executive says.

The KC-390 is three years away from entering service and Embraer has yet to reveal how it plans to support the aircraft, which the airframer hopes to sell around the world.

Boeing, meanwhile, is looking for opportunities to keep its airlift workforce active as C-17 production winds down, and has identified the KC-390 logistics need as a key opportunity.

" Look at our global support programme for the C-17, " says Jeff Kohler, Boeing vice-president for business development. " The Boeing company brings a logistics system that Embraer doesn't have yet. We haven't negotiated all that yet, but, if you think about it, that would be a great partnership for us, too. "

Becoming involved in the KC-390 sustainment would mark an expansion of Boeing's participation in the programme. So far, both companies have only agreed that Boeing will produce a marketing plan and lead the sales effort in countries where it has a unique relationship with the local government.

Boeing also provides limited support to Embraer's engineering staff, Kohler says. He describes it as a " little advice over the shoulder " on certain aspects of designing an airlifter.

" Having a bigger aircraft where the ramp opens in flight, there are some unique things that you have to worry about when that happens, " Kohler says.

Ultimately, Boeing also plans to lead a future sales campaign for the KC-390 in the US market. Embraer has avoided listing the US Air Force as a possible customer. The USA, in fact, is omitted from Embraer's forecast showing worldwide demand for 728 aircraft in the KC-390 class.

Boeing, however, clearly senses an opportunity to market an alternative to the Lockheed Martin C-130J to the world's largest defence customer.

" I think the assumption both of us have right now is that Boeing would lead that effort, " Kohler says. "You've got to deal with so many Buy American rules."




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Why Super Tucano Is Super







May 7, 2013 : Guatemala is buying six Brazilian A-29 Super Tucano aircraft for their air force. The Super Tucano is a single engine turbo-prop trainer/attack aircraft that is used by over a dozen nations. This aircraft carries two internal 12.7mm (.50 caliber) machine-guns and can carry up to 1.5 tons of bombs and rockets. It can stay in the air for 6.5 hours at a time. It is rugged, easy to maintain, and cheap. You pay $15-20 million for each Super Tucano, depending on how much training, spare parts and support equipment you get with them.

This aircraft can be equipped to carry over a half dozen of the 250 pound GPS smart bombs (or half a dozen dumb 500 pound bombs), giving it considerable potential firepower if rigged to handle smart bombs. The Super Tucano comes equipped with a GPS guidance system. Max altitude is 11,300 meters (35,000 feet) and cruising speed is 400 kilometers an hour. Naturally, this aircraft can move in lower and slower than any jet can. The Super Tucano is also equipped with armor for the pilot, a pressurized cockpit, and an ejection seat. Not bad for an aircraft with a max takeoff weight of 5.4 tons.

The Super Tucano can double as trainers. It's easier to train pilots to use the Super Tucano, cheaper to buy them, and much cheaper to operate them. It costs less than a tenth as much per flying hour to operate a Super Tucano compared to a F-16.

Guatemala is the sixth South Latin American customer for the Super Tucano joining Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, and Ecuador. Twelve countries (including Afghanistan, Angola, Burkina Fasso, Indonesia, Mauritius and Senegal) have bought Super Tucano, which has become the world’s leading counter-insurgency aircraft. Guatemala will use it to help control the growing problem with drug smugglers moving cocaine to North America.

These " trainer/light attack aircraft " can also operate from crude airports, or even a stretch of highway. Aircraft like this can carry systems to defeat portable surface to air missiles. They can carry smart bombs as well.



Sources : http://www.strategypage.com

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Russia to offer Brazil stake in future Pak-Fa




Monday, 14 October 2013



A Russian military delegation about to visit Brazil will offer joint development of a fifth-generation combat aircraft " of the type " of its own most newest fighter to Brazilian defense officials, a member of the delegation told RIA Novosti Monday.

A Russian military delegation about to visit Brazil will offer joint development of a fifth-generation combat aircraft “ of the type ” of its own most newest fighter to Brazilian defense officials, a member of the delegation told RIA Novosti Monday.

The proposal appears to be in support of an unsolicited offer by Russia’s combat aircraft maker Sukhoi of its Su-35 fighter, that has been struck off Brazil’s shortlist for its air force’s F-X2 tender for the purchase of 36 fighter jets worth $4 billion. Russia is still hoping to sell the Su-35s or similar aircraft to Brazil outside the framework of that tender, sweetening the deal with the new proposal.


“ During the talks in Brazil, we are ready to offer our partners deliveries of ready-for-sale advanced aircraft like the Su-35, but also joint development of a next-generation [combat] aircraft of the T-50 type, ” the delegation source said.


The T-50 or PAK-FA, which will make up the core of Russia's future fighter fleet, is a multirole warplane featuring " stealth " technology, " super-maneuverability, super-cruise capability, and advanced avionics including an active electronically scanned array radar, according to its designer Sukhoi.

In late April, President Vladimir Putin said the first T-50 would enter service with Russia’s armed forces in 2016.
Russia and India are already developing a derivative of T-50 for the Indian Air Force. According to executives from India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), that will build the plane, the two sides completed the preliminary design of the aircraft, tentatively dubbed FGFA, earlier this year and are now negotiating a detailed design contract.

The F-X2 tender is Brazil’s second attempt to find a replacement for its ageing Northrop F-5 and Dassault Mirage fighters. An earlier tender, F-X, was cancelled in 2005 due to lack of funding.

Three contenders officially remain in the running – the Swedish SAAB Gripen NG, French Dassault Rafale and US Boeing FA-18E/F Super Hornet. According to Defense Industry Daily, the FA-18E/F was close to winning the deal last month, but revelations that the United States National Security Agency had spied on the Brazilian presidential office put the deal on hold. Brazil’s Poder Aero magazine, citing local officials, says Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff decided late last month to postpone the tender until 2015, after next year’s elections.

A Russian delegation led by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, will visit Brazil and Peru on October 14-17 to promote sales of Russian weaponry to those countries. It includes Alexander Fomin, head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) and Anatoly Isaikin, head of the arms exports monopoly Rosobornexport.



Sources : http://www.defencenews.in

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Brazil spied on US, Russia, Iran, Iraq




Agence France-PresseNovember 4, 2013 11:33



Brazil kept tabs on rooms rented by the US embassy in Brasilia, which the Brazilian Intelligence Agency believed acted as a hi-tech base for espionage operations : report.


Brazil, which hotly denounced US surveillance of its leaders, itself spied on US officials as well as on Russia, Iran and Iraq a decade ago, the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper reported on Monday.

The paper indicated it had access to a document from the Brazilian Intelligence Agency, ABIN, describing surveillance operations from 2003 and 2004, during the first mandate of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Brazil kept tabs on rooms rented by the US embassy in Brasilia, which ABIN believed acted as a hi-tech base for espionage operations, the document showed.

ABIN concluded that the rooms housed computers and communications devices. Responding to Folha, the US embassy denied espionage activities took place in the building, saying only day-to-day equipment, such as walkie-talkies, were stored there.

Brasilia also spied on Russian military personnel involved in negotiations for military equipment, as well as on Moscow's former consul general in Rio, Anatoly Kashuba.

And ABIN monitored Iran's then-ambassador to Cuba, Seyed Davood Mohseni Salehi Monfared, when he visited Brazil between April 9-14, 2004, and spied on Iraq's embassy, shortly after the 2003 US-led invasion of the country.

The Brazilian surveillance was on a far more modest scale than that carried out by the US National Security Agency (NSA), which monitored millions of high-level Brazilian communications, according to documents leaked by fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

The Snowden documents show NSA monitoring stretched all the way up to the phone calls of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff as well as at state oil giant Petrobras.

Rousseff condemned the NSA monitoring in an address last month to the United Nations and also broke off a scheduled visit to Washington in protest. Brazil says it hopes to interview Snowden, currently in exile in Russia.

On Monday, Rousseff's office responded to Folha's report by stating the surveillance in question comprised "counter-intelligence operations " undertaken a decade ago.

" The operations in question (took place) in accordance with Brazilian legislation pertaining to the protection of the national interest.

" As Folha preferred not to send copies of the documents obtained, the Institutional Security Cabinet (GSI) could not verify their authenticity, " the presidential office stated, adding publication of classified documents was a criminal offense and would be punished.

Folha said it had interviewed several former intelligence officials, agents and military in order to confirm the authenticity of the document in its possession.

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All the while the Netra, an Airborne Early Warning and Control System Aircraft (AEW&C) and Israeli drones, the Heron, played a key role during the pre-dawn air strike carried out by the IAF. Both are like ‘Eyes in the Sky’ – to monitor the movement of Pakistan Air Force jets and anti-aircraft radars installed in Pakistan.
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