{"id":191255,"date":"2009-09-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/09\/brazil-probably-buys-rafale\/"},"modified":"2009-09-09T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T15:00:00","slug":"brazil-probably-buys-rafale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/09\/brazil-probably-buys-rafale\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil (Probably) Buys Rafale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Dassault has <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%3A12f217c9-c6a9-4e24-b2b6-d26f53d4ad29\">finally gotten an export sale of its Rafale fighter<\/a>, to Brazil. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defesa.gov.br\/mostra_materia.php?ID_MATERIA=33412\">Official announcement in Portuguese<\/a> on a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> poorly configured web server)<\/p>\n<p>There were a number of things that helped with this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Rafale had already taken off and landed on Brazil&#8217;s aircraft carrier (see below).<\/li>\n<li>The French agreed to purchase the Embraer KC-390 transport, which the US wouldn&#8217;t, and the Swedes couldn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>The France and Brazil are already collaborating on the Brazilian nuclear attack submarines, which, once again, which the US wouldn&#8217;t, and the Swedes couldn&#8217;t (or maybe they could, as the collaboration with the French is non-nuclear, and the Gotland class AIP boats would have a systems to a nuke boat).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This breaks the logjam for Rafale, but the customer, which has a significant aerospace industry with indigenous design capabilities and extensive existing ties, is fairly unique.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, we also have <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.co.uk\/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdefesabrasil.com%2Fsite%2Fnoticias%2Ffab%2Fapos-reuniao-com-jobim-parlamentares-dizem-que-acordo-para-compra-de-cacas-da-franca-nao-esta-fechado.php&amp;sl=pt&amp;tl=en&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8\">this report<\/a> (Google Translation from Portuguese) saying that the deal may not be completely nailed down yet.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Drus7ANMpcY&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Drus7ANMpcY&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/ericpalmer.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/08\/rafale-history\/\">ELP Defens(c)e Blog<\/a> for the tip\/vid that the Rafale has already been launched from, and landed on the Foch, which was sold to the Brazilians and rechristened NAe S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Dassault has finally gotten an export sale of its Rafale fighter, to Brazil. (Official announcement in Portuguese on a very poorly configured web server) There were a number of things that helped with this: The Rafale had already taken off and landed on Brazil&#8217;s aircraft carrier (see below). The French agreed to purchase the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,984,1068],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-europe","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191255"}],"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=191255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}