While we’re on the subject of global defence spending, it seems opportune to reflect on Brazil’s Embraer entering the global defence market.
Its KC-390 military tanker and transport aircraft is being built in partnership with international suppliers and will go head-to-head for sales with Europe’s Airbus A400 and Lockheed Martin’s C-130 Hercules.
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Embraer enters global defence market
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May 3, 2012 at 2:50 pm |
Sickening how the leaders of the US aviation industry have to share their technology. Jobs overseas? thought Obama was bringing back home? Right! NOT.
June 9, 2012 at 10:29 pm |
Who is losing with it in fact is the Brazilian aeronautical industry, the United States are not losing anything, since many of the components of the aircraft will be manufactured in the United States itself
June 25, 2012 at 9:15 pm |
You can’t compete with Lockheed Martin. Keep your tin cans to yourself. “We don’t need no stinkin planes from Brazil”. We make the finest aircraft in the world. Read the news!