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The roll out of the KC-390 and the signing of the FAB for the Gripen would take place within hours of each other at the end of this month

(defensa.com) The Brazilian government plans to sign on the 24th of this month the purchase agreement of the supersonic fighter Gripen NG, produced by the Swedish company Saab. The agreement provides for the purchase of 36 aircraft with an estimated value of $ 4,500 million. A few hours before the roll out would take the largest aircraft built in Brazil by Embraer, the KC-390, both projects with many local and foreign partners. About three weeks after the great South American transport plane would make its first test flight.


Before that, in mid-October, the industrial cooperation agreements and technology transfer with suppliers and partners in the development of the Gripen program in Brazil key must be signed. According to the Brazilian Ministry of Defense, since August the parties have worked on the project settings. The list of companies associated with the development of the Swedish fighter includes Embraer in Brazil, Mectron, Odebrecht Defense and Technology, Inbra Aerospace Akaer, AEL and Selex Systems Group and GE do Brasil.


Embraer had in July signed a memorandum of understanding with Saab to ensure its leadership position in the project.

Saab also pledged to invest $ 150 million to build a factory of aerostructures in the São Paulo municipality of São Bernardo do Campo, with Inbra Aerospace as majority shareholder (60%) of the new company, which should be operational by the end of 2015 . Akaer- to own Saab as shareholder, was the first contractor to work on the Saab Gripen NG program, part of the fuselage, wings and main landing gear doors. Aerospace Inbra centralize the production of structural composite parts.

The participation of the company in the F-X2 program includes coordinating the activities of production and delivery of single and tandem versions of Gripen and systems development, integration, flight testing, final assembly and delivery. Embraer is also considering an alliance with Saab for the promotion and global marketing Gripen NG. The package of technological and industrial compensation provided by Saab for F-X2 states Gripen 40% and 80% of its structure can be produced locally.

In turn, try to place the Embraer KC-390 in the context of the current possibilities of exchange and to the Super Tucano in purely academic version in the Swedish Air Force.


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War Admiral Wilson Barbosa takes over as new Chief of Staff of the Brazilian Navy


(defensa.com) ceremony broadcast by the Chief of Staff of the Brazilian Navy has taken place in the Association of Marines Brasilia. The event was attended by Defense Minister Celso Amorim, the Commander of the Navy, Admiral squad in July Soares de Moura Neto, and various civil and military authorities. Admiral Carlos Augusto de Sousa squad transmitted by Admiral Wilson War Barbosa squad.


The Staff of the Navy is the governing body of the General Corps of the Navy, for the purpose of advising the Commander of the Navy Command of it and the performance of their duties in the Military Defense Council and the Council of National Defense. The new number two of the Brazilian Navy (whom many point as successor to Admiral Moura Neto) was, until yesterday, Chief of Naval Operations and the Director General of Shipping. The squad Admiral Carlos Augusto de Sousa, meanwhile, will occupy a position in the Military SupremoTribual.


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Recent Arrival of MI-35 for the Brazilian Air Force


(defensa.com) An Antonov AN 124 landed at Porto Velho last November 26, from Russia, shifting in their cellars the last batch of 12 helicopters MI 35 M hired years ago, which will be used by the 2nd / 8th GAV / POTI Squadron of the Brazilian Air Force, which is its organic aircraft. New copies are registered with FAB 8960, 8961 and 8962. tuition Deliveries began on April 17, 2010, with a first batch of three helicopters.


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Brazil’s Agrale sells 141 4x4 Marruá the Namibia Defence Force

(defensa.com) Agrale has signed a contract to supply 141 units Marruá the Namibian Defence Force (NDF). It is expected that the first 60 units to reach Walvis Bay (Namibia's main port) later this month. Will the models AM 11 VTNE (Transfer Vehicle unskilled), 11 VTL REC (Light Vehicle Recognition), AM 21 AM 23 VTNE VTNE and ¾ Ton.


According to Flávio Crosa, sales director Agrale, "The Marruá was chosen for its strength, durability and technical capabilities. Last year we had already sent some test units and demonstration." The company vehicles are approved by the Armed Forces Brazil, also Argentina, Ecuador and Paraguay are also military users of this line.

Agrale will also provide a technology package, which includes mechanical training and provision of parts for maintenance and replacement. "We have prepared a complete structure to generate business. We will provide training, after-sales service and daily monitoring for better vehicle utilization and proper maintenance," explains Crosa. Agrale Marruá vehicles are equipped with diesel MWM Sprint 140-horsepower engine.




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The Brazilian Army Order 60 armored Guaraní for Mechanized Cavalry


(defensa.com) In order to be used on an experimental basis for Mechanized Cavalry Brigades, the Brazilian Army commissioned 60 more copies of Vehicle Armored Personnel Carrier Medium of -VBTP-MR IVECO Latin America wheels, a subsidiary of Italian group based in the state of Belo Horizonte. The value of the transaction is approaching $ 80 million.


Deliveries of this model have started in 2012 and continued until 2030, additional orders or exports volume, for now limited to a round of 14 for Argentina not arise, which along with Brazil (already ordered some units at the destination) would use in Haiti, MINUSTAH. Mechanized Cavalry Brigades are concentrated in the southern and western Brazil.

On September 26, Iveco Latin America ended the construction of 6x6 wheeled armored VBTP-MR Guarani 100th for the Brazilian Army vehicle. The 15th Mechanized Infantry Brigade Cascavel was the first operational unit to officially receive the vehicle in March this year. The armored Training Center "General Walter Pires" (CIBld) of Santa Maria, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul and also operates some units.

Of the 2,044 vehicles intended to receive the Brazilian Army until 2031 under the letter of intent signed in December 2009 with Iveco Latin America, were acquired effectively by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) in December 2007 a pilot batch 16 vehicles and a technical data package and a set of production tools developed specifically for performance of the contract; in August 2012 a batch of 86 vehicles doctrinal experimentation (LED), technical assistance, logistical support and training; and 26 similar through a contract signed in December 2013 units, plus batch of 86 vehicles. It is expected that delivery of 128 wheeled armored be completed in December 2014. A prototype hired in December 2007 falls outside the set of already purchased vehicles.

The fiscal year of the law of the Union budget for 2015 (PLOA 2015) devotes a budget of 200 million reais to implement the acquisition by the Logistics Command (colog) of 56 additional vehicles.

The VBTP-MR program as recorded by the Strategic Project Army - Guarani (PEE Guarani) progressively replace the armored 6x6 EE-11 Urutu and EE-9 Cascavel produced by the company now defunct ENGESA (Engenheiros Specialized S / A), and improve the ability of many armored units.





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Hercules Brazilian Air Force crashes in Chilean Antarctica


(defensa.com) The Lockheed Hercules C-130M FAB 2470 - serial number 4441, in 1972 the Brazilian Air Force suffered yesterday, November 27, detachment of the main landing gear arriving in adverse weather conditions at the aerodrome Teniente Rodolfo Marsh on King George (South Shetland Islands) Island in the Chilean Antarctic. The four-engine, from Punta Arenas, Pelotas and Rio de Janeiro, collided with a snowbank also losing propeller engine No. 4, apparently landing with fire by ingestion of foreign objects.


No injuries were reported, but damage to the aircraft itself would be of great importance. He had the quick action of Rescue and Fire Fighting (FFS) of Chile, based at the aerodrome. The aircraft served the Brazilian Antarctic Program (PROANTAR).




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The Brazilian Navy Delivery Information System Management Logistics and Defense Mobilization

(defensa.com) El Centro Naval Systems Analysis (CASNAV) presented the Management Information System of Logistics and Defense Mobilization (SIGLMD) to the Logistics Directorate of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces, Ministry of Defense.

Intends to become computational tool Logistics System and Mobilization of Defense and the National Mobilization System integrated into the armed forces and other institutions and agencies nationwide interest in order to provide reliable, adequate information in real time to strategic decision making, facilitating interoperability with information systems supporting logistics functions of the Armed Forces.

This software consists of five modules: access control, logistics (supply and demand), mobilizables companies, potentials, as well as accessories and supplies. By combining them, along with other information such as weather and satellite, you can respond to varied types of emergencies. One of the actions planned is a bill that would establish that Brazilian ships constructed and adapted for possible use in case of mobilization receive a financial contribution from the Merchant Marine Fund. Another ongoing initiative is a partnership with Transpetro, which operates terminals and pipelines, transportation and natural gas.

The agreement provides for the adaptation of ships of this subsidiary Petrobras to supply the naval fleet. The expectation is that the first ship well adapted to be delivered in January 2016.




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Odebrecht Defense and Technology agrees with the Brazilian Army continued testing Mectron Anti-Tank System MSS 1.2 AC



(defensa.com) Odebrecht Defesa e Tecnologia (ODT), using its subsidiary, Mectron, has signed with the CTEx - Brazilian Army Technology Center, a contract giving continuity to the tests and evaluations Surface Missile Weapon System Anti-Surface tank MSS 1.2 AC, built in recent months the Army and the Marine Corps Brazilians, along with spare parts and simulators.


The MSS-1.2, guided by laser to the target up to 3 km, was awarded both the Army and the Naval Fusiliers. Simultaneously, a project very similar to AT-4 (still fully available in the Army), was developed ALAC (Weapon Light Anti CART). Currently, the Army Aviation evaluates the air-ground missile MAS 5.1 and 3.1 earth-air MSA. The contract provides for developing a new gyroscope with new technical requirements and installation on computers already delivered.





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Delays in the modernization program by Embraer for the Brazilian Navy Skyhawks



defensa.com) The modernization program 12 aircraft AF-1 and AF-1A (A-4KU and TA-4KU Skyhawk) of the Brazilian Navy will be completed over two years after the date originally scheduled. Under the original contract, the program was completed in September 2015, but this date has been moved to November 2017.

The first AF-1 modernized should have been delivered to the Navy this year, an event that was postponed until early 2015. According to unofficial sources, changes in the original contract should also include a significant reduction of financial resources before situated around $ 107,500,000. Embraer Defense and Security is the prime contractor for this program package, which has many similarities to the one developed for the F-5E / F of the Brazilian Air Force.

Embraer will modernize 12 A-4 aircraft (nine AF-1 single-seaters and three seaters AF-1A) in a project estimated that the jets can keep flying until 2025. Among the changes it has a modernized cabin with new avionics and multifunction displays. The radar will be replaced by an IAI Elta EL / M-2032 manufactured in Israel. The modernized aircraft will also receive new communication systems that enable secure data link with any other Brazilian military aircraft.





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