{"id":191220,"date":"2009-09-12T05:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/12\/brazil-deal-fx-2-not-done\/"},"modified":"2009-09-12T05:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T10:21:00","slug":"brazil-deal-fx-2-not-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/12\/brazil-deal-fx-2-not-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Deal FX-2 Not Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img14.imageshack.us\/img14\/3002\/getasseth.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/>It appears that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Aa7049773-3354-480b-a3ea-29abe93f00bd\">deal has not been sealed<\/a>, much less finalized, and the Brazilian Defense Minister is saying that the Gripen and Super-Hornet. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/09\/11\/332109\/brazil-continues-fx-2-competition-backtracks-on-rafale.html\">could be still allowed to &#8220;redefine&#8221; their offers for the FX-2 contract<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that deal was 98% done at the time of the initial announcement, and the Brazil is angling for more support, either technically or via purchase,  for their C-390 transport.<\/p>\n<p>Background <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/brazil-probably-buys-rafale.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the deal has not been sealed, much less finalized, and the Brazilian Defense Minister is saying that the Gripen and Super-Hornet. &#8220;could be still allowed to &#8220;redefine&#8221; their offers for the FX-2 contract.&#8221; My guess is that deal was 98% done at the time of the initial announcement, and the Brazil is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,984,964,1068],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191220"}],"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=191220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}