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Brazil confirmed the purchase of 3 batteries Pantsir and adjusts the conditions of acquisition

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(Defensa.com) The decision was announced by Vice President Michel Temer, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the Seventh Meeting of the Russian-Brazilian Committee of High-Level Cooperation held in Moscow, and now depends on settings Nayor around or lower resource availability. The contract would include the initial supply of three batteries formed by four launch vehicles eight remuniciadores, three control units and the purchase of three radars, plus a batch of about 240 missiles 57E6-E. The negotiations include the transfer of technology, allowing production systems on Brazilian soil to 100% over a period of up to six years after the signing of the contract.

A cost of a billion dollars is estimated to incorporate these systems, however, of interest to Brazil, Russia would be willing to offer cheaper packages with inferior technology transfer and ultimately more investment in line with the current capacity Brazil amid the financial crisis that now spans. The initial idea was that the acquisition of equipment occurs with the transfer of technology so that each battery has a higher degree of nationalization, gradually, to be fully produced in Brazil. The project foresees the participation purchase of so-called strategic defense companies, which benefit the national industry in this sector.

Payment of the system is established through trade compensation. Therefore, the manufacturer of Pantsir S1 rubles and in turn receive pay in local currency Brazilian exporters interested in doing business with Russia, a country with which it has a huge trade surplus and customary condition their greater balance in the balance the purchase of goods or aerospace defense and security.

Technical Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil and Russia met in August in Brasilia progress in that meeting in the negotiations for the purchase of the Pantsir batteries. The head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Tikhomirov, the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, listed the subjects of interest of his country in pursuit of joint arrangements. In addition to the Pantsir batteries, quoted by MI-35 helicopters sold to Brazil's recent agreement off-set (trade compensation / industrial) and the creation of a center for maintenance of these aircraft and also introduced a new integrated security system including the Bal and Bastion missile.

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The Brazilian Air Force test the first modernized radar TPS-B34

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(Defensa.com) Group Communications and Control Squadron called Mangrulho (4th / 1st GCC), of the Brazilian Air Force, based in Santa Maria Air Base, has begun testing a radar TPS-B34 modernized. The team, originally used in the Amazon, received a number of improvements in the data processor and the system for cooling the antenna. The hardware and software changes also increase the capabilities for electronic warfare environment. In addition to this new radar, the unit also received an electronic warfare simulator.

Launched in October 2014, the modernization process will involve a total of six radars and will be completed in 30 months. The investment is 18.5 million dollars for the US firm Lockheed Martin, which will have to develop 12 projects compensation (offset) for the domestic industry and the System of the Brazilian Airspace Control (SISCEAB). The radar control Airspace Guajará-Mirim (DTCEA-GM) in Rondônia, in the sensitive border with Bolivia, is among those covered by the project. The modernization was completed on September 5. Meanwhile, in Cruzeiro do Sul in Acre state on the border with Peru, local radar was elevated in 12 meters.

With an antenna of 45 square meters, which rotates between 6 and 12 times a minute, the TPS-B34 radars have a range of 470 kilometers. The whole surrounding the antenna, the mechanical system, the station control equipment and electronic, can be transported aboard transport aircraft of the FAB. The first intercept control a modernized radar TPS-B34 was held on June 25 by the Mangrulho Squadron. A C-98 Caravan of manning the base of Santa Maria, flying from Cacequi, was intercepted by an H-60 helicopter "Squadron Pantera (5 ° / 8 ° GAV)" when he took an unauthorized toward the base path. After being vectored for control of land and until the aircraft is intercepted, the Sikorsky H-60 took the respective measures of surveillance remote recognition of airspace, interrogation, rerouting and compulsory landing. On the ground, effective Mangrulho Squadron were able to compare the performance of the new radar data provided by the Second Integrated Center of Air Defense and Airspace Control (CINDACTA 2) in Curitiba.

The 4th Group Communications and Control Squadron Mangrulho was created in 1985 when the Brazilian Air Force chose the Santa Maria Air Base to accommodate a squadron of control and alarm. The then Prime and Alarm Control Squadron (1 RCT), headquartered in Santa Cruz Air Base, was transferred to the Santa Maria, leading to this new unit, now fully operational.

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First edition of the International Defence Seminar in Brazil

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(defensa.com) More than 70 companies in the defense sector participated Wednesday in business rounds and with key government agencies, the Navy, the Army and the Brazilian Air Force, in the framework of the International Seminar of Defense (SEMINDE ), held in Santa Maria Rio Grande do Sul.

The event began with the conference "Strategy of Defense and the Defense Industry Brazil" Air Brigadier Jose Augusto Crepaldi Affonso, director of the Product Department of the Ministry of Defense and the presence of national and foreign authorities, including the commander Air Force Lieutenant Brigadier Air Nivaldo Luiz Rossato.

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Among the participating companies, AEL has made a static display of some of its electro-optical systems and UAV Skylark and portable command and control center, while its president, Sergio Horta, discuss with Vice President of Saab, Klas Forsman, and Rear Admiral Sydney dos Santos Neves (reference in the program Getting Prosub-Submarine-Navy) on technology transfer, one of the various panels covered by the event. Seminde is also a sign of more positive interaction between the armed forces, companies and universities, a stimulus to the so-called Triple Helix (Academy-Business-Armed).

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The Brazilian Defii sold to a South American Air Force simulators fleet maintenance CBT

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(Defensa.com) This was announced in Santa Maria, under the SEMINDE. It is an Andean Air Force, whose name has not been made public under a confidentiality agreement, which has acquired the system Computer Basic Training (CBT) Maintenance, when it is confirmed as the first export company . Locally, CBT Defii already installed in the MBT Leopard 1 A5 Brazilian Army and has recently launched V-Card application, or sandbox Tactical Virtually suitable for computers, servers online maps, tablets or palm-tops plan military or civil defense operations.

The group is now working on two other proposals, which are Aplicativo Reconnaissance Vehicle, summarizing all vehicles originally South American Defense and Security, their characteristics and typical operating environments and the SIBA / SITA (Beacon Simulator) , training the user in the marking of land vehicles and aircraft in real situations. An application, the AMEQ, a summary of pre series comes bundled with new assault rifles Imbel 5.56 IA2 delivered to the armed forces of Brazil is also developed. In addition, the upcoming release of a full motion simulator of a land armored analyzed models which should be directed towards evaluating shot 6 x 6 or 8 x 8 wide continental use Cascavel case, urutu, Piranha or Kurassier.

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A naval aviator signals during a takeoff on the aircraft carrier USS George Washington in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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