{"id":189846,"date":"2010-02-06T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/06\/brazil-fighter-competition-update\/"},"modified":"2010-02-06T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T03:15:00","slug":"brazil-fighter-competition-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/06\/brazil-fighter-competition-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Fighter Competition Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a report from the Brazilian Newspaper <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Folha de S. Paulo<\/span> reporting that there will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easybourse.com\/bourse\/actualite\/brazil-to-buy-6-dassault-rafale-aircraft-for-S62-FR0000121725-794051\">36 Dassault Rafales purchased at $175 million each<\/a>, ($6.2 billion) and this constitutes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story.php?i=4485090&amp;c=AIR&amp;s=TOP\">$2 billion price cut in the deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2010\/02\/04\/338049\/updated-brazil-plays-down-reports-of-rafale-announcement.html\">Brazil defense ministry had denied that any formal decision has yet been made<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>$175 million each?  Great googly moogly, for a few bucks more they could buy the F-22, if it could be sold, and if the production tooling still existed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a report from the Brazilian Newspaper Folha de S. Paulo reporting that there will be 36 Dassault Rafales purchased at $175 million each, ($6.2 billion) and this constitutes a $2 billion price cut in the deal. On the other hand, the Brazil defense ministry had denied that any formal decision has yet been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1068],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}