(Infodefensa.com) Sao Paulo – Russia’s advanced training and strike aircraft, the Yak-130 will receive a Brazilian radar receiver Scipio-01, produced by Mectron subsidiary of Odebrecht Defesa e Tecnologia. The device was designed for use in fighter bomber Embraer AMX A-1, on active duty in the Air Force since 1989 and is currently undergoing an extensive modernization program for a fleet of 43 aircraft.
The negotiation of this equipment and technology is in the context of the agreement signed between Moscow and Brasilia in December in Russia by President Dilma Rousseff. Overall, the agreement involves the production of three batteries of anti-aircraft defense system Pantsir S1, plus two missile MANDPADS (man portable air defense system) 4/9K38 Igla, and the creation of a joint venture that will produce this weapon in Brazil, involving Avibras, Embraer Defense and Security and Odebrecht. The final decision should be announced next week, during the visit of President Dmitry Medvedev to Brazil.
In the same negotiation, the Russian export agency Rosoboronexport military equipment has offered the advanced jet trainer and light attack Yak-130 for the Brazilian Air Force as a transition between A29 Super Tucano turboprop and fighter aircraft frontline forces. The Yak-130 A is, at present, the most developed version of the model, and made its first flight in 2004. The aircraft has been purchased by the Russian military aviation (VVS), which will commission 72 units. In 2011, Irkut received an additional order for more than 65 aircraft.
Each Yak-130 costs on average $ 15.3 million and about 40 have been delivered. The Scipio-01 radar interests Irkut, the Yak-130 Manufacturer A because it combines two characteristics, is compact, occupying minimal space front nose section of the aircraft with low demand ventilation and energy production for use; and also because it operates so varied, is seeking air-to-air, air-to-ground tracking, air tank location search on the sea, mapping, telemetry, and so on.
In practice this means that the Scipio-01 can identify four to eight targets simultaneously and produce solutions for the four most threatening. Aerial targets five square meters in size can be found 32 kilometers away and land of 100 square meters to 80 kilometers away.
