With stagnating industry, increasing unemployment level, Gewerkschaften screaming for even less working time and expensive Euro, Germany is rolling down a hill. Pretty sad for a so-said leader of the EU.

That’s pretty dangerous, if you recall the Republic of Weimar, isn’t it? :diablo:

Hammer,
The US Army is buying the ACS with a Embraer platform. At same time, the Russians were putting an embargo to Brazilian chicken and beef, without any justifiable reasons.

So I don’t think that either the USA are that bad, or the Russian are that good, contrary to what many people here in Brazil like to think.

Kovy said something about the French Crusaders in the Navy Forum (topic “Rafale on Foch”):

lol, Come on ! they are 40 years old aircrafts that have suffered years of carrier stress (expecially carrier landing and salt atmosphere)
The french navy first plan was to retire them in 1977…Thanks to new wings and some structural tests, they were able to postpone the date until 1993. And finally they kept them until 1999 which was the ultimate date possible for safety reasons : The french lost 27 of their 42 F-8 during their 35 years of operational service.

You still want French F-8 ?
Take them, the navy asks 1 euro for each airframe and I’m sure they will give you a few etendard IV for free :

There´s a picture of the boneyard:

http://jetart.free.fr/image-avion/cruze-landi.jpg

these are all the french F-8 left, the rest is in museums
Caption of the picture: these are all the french F-8 left, the rest is in museums

I expect we´ll see a great, entertaining season, differently from previous years.

obigrado Senhor Echo! Eu amo mulheres de Brasil! :diablo:

Eu também, exceto pelas garotas do McDonald´s. You should hire hotter waitresses for McDonald´s – or maybe put some smaller clothes, you know… :dev2: :p :dev2:

But MiG-29K is a STOBAR naval fighter, and A-12 Sao Paulo operates CATOBAR aircraft. Hence, either the MiG-29K would have to be adapted for catapult lauch OR the carrier would have to receive a ski jump. This kind of adaptation is often too expensive to be practical. Nevertheless, there were some “mini ski-jumps tested on Foch for the Rafale, but I don’t know if those ones could be useful for a MiG-29K.

What about surplus A-7Es? The United States sold some recently to Thailand’s Navy,and while these aren’t deployed on a carrier,they would make a good replacement for the A-4s,as thats what the US Navy replaced its A-4s with.As a 2nd option I’d go with the Naval AMX,sounds like a good idea to me,probbley make a decent little attack bird and who knows,maybe Brazil could talk Italy into producing some on their AMX line to replace or complament their AV-8B Harrier IIs.If they did this,it would off set some of the costs of just one country producing a special version.

The Corsair II would be a good mud mover, but the carrier group needs an outer protection screen in the form of air defense fighters. Hence, the chosen platform would have to be a multirole fighter.

Multiroles: A-4, F/A-18A/C, Harrier, or the “Goshawk 200”. In the Naval Forum, someone posted some data about Sao Paulo´s catapults and lifts: they could handle a Hornet (A/C) without its full load. The Subpar Hornet is out of question, as is a fully loaded regular Hornet.

*** Since the Brazilian military has cancelled a much more needed program – the FX, needed to protect Brazilian airspace and acquire technology – I seriously doubt that the Navy would be allowed to get new-built fighters, such as a AMX-N or Goshawk. So, it could be an upgraded A-4 or an used Hornet.