Brazil is about to modernize its AMX fleet

Here is the link with the news . With this modernization it will be able to strike succesfully any region in Latin America and african coast . AMX’s ling endurance was already proved on an operation ( which this link tells too ) performed last august where the plane flew for 7 hours ininterruptely . At the end of the post there is already an analisys by an american specialist about Brazil’s policy of peace by being allways prepared for war .

The link ( in portuguese ) : http://www.forumnow.com.br/vip/mensagens.asp?forum=41190&grupo=53057&topico=2132923&nrpag=1

The translator for non-portuguese speakers : http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Here comes the article translated by Babel ( by copy and past ) :

I do not know if this already was postado, but… Removed of the electronic edition of 04/01/2004 of the periodical Gazette of the People. Embraer will make the modernization of 53 fighter aircrafts São Paulo (AE)? Brazil will have up to 2007 a formidable force of aerial attack strategical, capable to reach targets with intelligent bombs in any point of Latin America, by means of subsônicos the technological update of 53 fighter aircraft AMX, assigned A-1 in the Brazilian Military Aviation. Each airplane can lead up to 4 tons of missiles, rockets and intelligent bombs, guided for signals of GPS/satélite. The fleet of these spurts, developed in years 80 by means of a firmed binational program between Brazil and Italy, will be modernized from as the semester to an esteem cost of USS 300 million. The negotiations had been concluded in day 15 of December. The contracts, according to commander of the Aeronautics, Brigadier General Luís Carlos Bueno, “will be legalized in short term”. The update process goes to be for account of the Embraer, manufacturer of the AMX. The first unit of the modernized version, renomeada A-1M in the Brazilian Air Force (BAF), will leave the plant of Gavião Peixoto in March of 2005. The enterprise, integrated to the program of fortalecimento of the BAF, will demand investments of the USS order 3,5 billion up to 2010, involving the purchase of 12 the 24 supersonic huntings of multiple job; modernization of 46 supersonics F-5E/F; acquisition of 76 turboprops of light attack ALX Supertucano; incorporation of 8 alert electronic airplanes R-99A/B of advanced, control and remote sensoriamento; development of nine airplanes of maritime patrol P-3 Orion; acquisition of 12 light freighters C-295; e order of helicopters, light aircraft and of new systems of weapons. The USS endowment 1,5 billion for “revitalização and modernization of aircraft of the BAF” was approved in November of the passed year, as it amends to the Budget of 2004, for the Commission of Foreign affairs and National Defense. The program of modernization of A-1 AMX does not go to modify the motorization, that continues being conferred for a turbine English Rolls-Royce Spey Mk-207. The fighter aircraft weighs 13 tons, measures 13,23 meters and has 9 97 meters of air-air spread with two missiles Piranha, produced no Brazil pela Mectron industry, of Is Jose dos Fields. ============================================= Airplane can go until the coast of Africa The BAF can carry through action of strategical attack with the AMX in its current configuration, in the same way as in 1999 they had been fulfilled, with this spurt, 274 missions of the Italian Air Force in the war of the Kosovo. In August, the BAF executed the complex Operation Gamma to measure the limits of the fighter aircraft. Two of them had taken off to the 7 hours of the Air base of Saint Maria, in the Rio Grande Do Sul. The AMX had simulated attacks low the height and had made three sessions of restocking in air. After passing for the Amapá, they had followed for the Great River of the North. They had settled in Christmas for return of the 17 hours. The passage of 6.900 kilometers would cover all Latin America, great part of the South Atlantic and eventually it would allow to arrive at the coast of Africa. ============================================== How much cost USS 300 million It is the value of the investment that will be made in the modernization of 53 subsônico fighter aircraft AMX, call of A-1 for the Air Force, that leads up to 4 tons of missiles, intelligent rockets and bombs. USS 3,5 billion Investment that will be made in the program of fortalecimento of the BAF, including the purchase of 12 the 24 supersonic huntings, the modernization of 46 supersonics F-5E/F and purchase of 76 turboprops of light attack ALX Supertucano. ============================================== “Government is taking care of of the national interests” Specialist praises aerial program Brazilian São Paulo (AE)? The capacity of strategical attack that the military aviation of Brazil is developing “goes to provoke the rise of the regional levels of alert, but it is only factor of relative concern enters the countries of the continent”, believes the professor Andrew Saunders, former-rifleman and analyst of the Foundation of Studies of Defense of the University of California. For Saunders, “the governments of Latin America have interest in firming agreements of cooperation with Brazil and they do not have reasons to antagonize its neighboring greater”. risk Former-consultant, Saunders liveed four years in Rio De Janeiro. Brazil is creating diplomatical tensions with its program of modernization of the BAF? Andrew Saunders? Not, of form some. The Brazilian government is acting of the correct form, taking care of of the national interests. This defense politics guarantees the peace for the dissuasion and not for the threat. It prepares the country for eventual problems that can appear in the future. It is the only Latin nation capable to make this. Of that it forms this positive attitude can be perceived? The based Brazilian external politics in the integration for the economy is an efficient signalling. Official agencies as the BNDES are financing projects in Paraguay, Venezuela, Peru, the Equator and are prepared to act in Colombia, Uruguay and Bolivia. That type of crisis would take Brazil to launch a strategical aerial attack? I prefer to consider prompt situations. For example: the destruction of installations used for terrorist groups that threaten the life of Brazilians or the integrity of the territory. At the moment this condition is theoretician. But I present it a question: what he will happen if in 5 years the rich international traffic of drugs and weapons to come successfully to finance the election of a government under its control in the region? The bombing of clandestine tracks in the Amazônia, used by the drug trafficking, can be defined as strategical mission? I can guarantee to it? e I will only say this? that they are not only the tracks that have been bombed for Brazilian aviation…