{"id":192349,"date":"2009-04-09T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/09\/contest-for-brazilian-fighters-kicks-into-high-gear\/"},"modified":"2009-04-09T06:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T11:42:00","slug":"contest-for-brazilian-fighters-kicks-into-high-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/09\/contest-for-brazilian-fighters-kicks-into-high-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"Contest for Brazilian Fighters Kicks Into High Gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img228.imageshack.us\/img228\/8951\/getasset.gif\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"300\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img228.imageshack.us\/img228\/2863\/getassetn.gif\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"300\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img228.imageshack.us\/img228\/5831\/getassetp.gif\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"300\" \/>The lead competitors are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/04\/03\/324660\/brazilian-fighter-programme-ready-to-fly.html\">SAAB <span>Gripen<\/span>, <span>Dessault<\/span> <span>Rafale<\/span>, and the Boeing Super Hornet<\/a>, with Super Bugs systems being their selling point, the <span>Gripen&#8217;s<\/span> short\/rough field capabilities being their selling point, and the <span>Rafale&#8217;s<\/span> independence of US political restrictions being their selling point.<\/p>\n<p>The down sides are, single engine for the <span>Gripen<\/span>, poor aerodynamics for the F\/A-18E\/F, and cost, lack of other export orders, and a relatively limited number of weapons qualified for carriage for the <span>Rafale<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Brazil looks at this order as a way to expand its domestic aerospace capabilities through offsets and tech transfers, which probably would favor the French, who are desperate to get an export order.<\/p>\n<p>This raises an interesting question:  This is a large order, but just how many are one Brazilian?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I know, lame joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lead competitors are the SAAB Gripen, Dessault Rafale, and the Boeing Super Hornet, with Super Bugs systems being their selling point, the Gripen&#8217;s short\/rough field capabilities being their selling point, and the Rafale&#8217;s independence of US political restrictions being their selling point. The down sides are, single engine for the Gripen, poor aerodynamics for &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-192349","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\/192349"}],"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=192349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}