Russia to deliver attack helicopters to Brazil this year

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Shepherd UK

Russia to deliver attack helicopters to Brazil this year

April 07, 2009

Russia will start deliveries of Mi-35 Hind attack helicopters to Brazil by the end of 2009, a senior government official said on Monday.

The Russian helicopter beat off fierce competition from the Augusta A-129 Mangusta and the Eurocopter AS-665 Tiger to win a Brazilian tender last fall.

"We have recently signed a contract to deliver 12 Mi-35 helicopters to Brazil. The first deliveries will start by the end of this year or the beginning of 2010," said Alexander Fomin, deputy director of the Federal Service on Military-Technical Cooperation. The official said the contract was worth about $150 million.

The Mi-35 Hind E is an improved export version of the famed Mi-24 attack helicopter, which combines high fire power with a troop transport capability.

Read more: http://www.shephard.co.uk/news/2351/russia-to-deliver-attack-helicopters-to-brazil-this-year/

[Judi Lynn]

1. Defense: Russia may allow Brazil to produce its fifth-generation fighters under license

Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Defense: Russia may allow Brazil to produce its fifth-generation fighters under license

RIA Novost reports Russia may allow Brazil to produce its fifth-generation fighters under a license in the future, a senior Russian government official said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

"We are discussing with the well-known Brazilian company Embraer the transfer of technology and the construction of facilities for the future licensed production of the aircraft, including the fifth-generation fighter," said Alexander Fomin, deputy director of the Federal Service on Military-Technical Cooperation.

Russia's advanced multirole fighter is being developed by the Sukhoi aircraft maker, part of Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), along with India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), under a preliminary intergovernmental agreement signed in October 2007.

The first prototype is scheduled to make its maiden flight before the end of 2009.

Last November, Russia and Brazil signed a series of agreements on military technology cooperation which emphasize the protection of intellectual property rights and technology secrets.

http://ionglobaltrends.blogspot.com/2009/04/defense-russia-may-allow-brazil-to.html

[saigon68]

2. WOW a War in S amerika How Fresh

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Good thing they have the hunger, homeless, slum thing under control

[Judi Lynn]

3. The further away they get from the right-wing military dictatorships

which have kept the people of South America living in terror, subjugated, and offered up for cheap labor and exploitation by US-based multinationals, the closer they'll be to bringing help to the people who need it.

[Peace Patriot]

5. How come you're not arguing for the US 4th Fleet to stand down, which Brazil's president,

Lula da Silva considers a threat to Brazil's oil reserves (as well as Venezuela's), or argue for the end of U.S. military violations of Venezuela's air space near Venezuela's biggest oil fields off its Caribbean coast, or argue against the U.S. embargo on aircraft parts to Venezuela for aircraft that Venezuela purchased in the U.S. (a little lesson there for Brazil--beware of what you buy from the U.S.)? Or why don't you argue against the U.S. funding and organizing of white separatist rioters and murderers right out of the U.S. embassy in Bolivia, this last September, or conspiring with Colombia to drop ten U.S. "smart bombs" on Ecuadoran territory, killing 25 people in their sleep, at a temporary FARC hostage release camp, or argue against the U.S. larding Colombia with $6 BILLION in military aid, while Colombians suffer some of the worst poverty in South America, with the Colombian military and its rightwing paramilitary death squads slaughtering thousands of union leaders, small peasant farmers, human rights workers, journalists and others, trying to destroy dissent against the narco-fascist government?

Why aren't you arguing against that monstrous U.S./Colombia expenditure on arms and fascist militarim?

But you've got a beef against Brazil buying helicopters from Russia? It is the U.S. and Colombia who are the militaristic aggressors in South America, and who have wasted TRILLIONS and TRILLIONS of dollars on armaments--money that could have been used to help the poor, here and there. Why don't you criticize them, rather than a leftist government whose leaders are trying to be prepared should the country that slaughtered 100,000 innocent Iraqis to steal their oil, come gunning for South America's oil? Without the leftist sweep of elections in South America, the profits from the oil would be pouring into the pockets of monsters like Exxon Mobil, who not only pig out on us with gas gouging, but hijack our government and our military for corporate resource wars--instead of being used for education, medical care and other bootstrapping of the vast poor majority, and for regional development. I'd say that it would be a very derelict government, indeed, that was not looking to protect its oil reserves, after the Iraq slaughter, and in view of our global corporate predators' frustration at acquiring Iran's oil as well.

But go ahead and snipe at Brazil, which has a government that is actually trying to do something for the poor. You reveal your true values in this snipery.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Brazil could make Russian new-generation fighters under license

Brazil could make Russian new-generation fighters under license
12:33 | 07/ 04/ 2009

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MOSCOW, April 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russia may allow Brazil to produce its fifth-generation fighters under a license in the future, a senior Russian government official said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

"We are discussing with the well-known Brazilian company Embraer the transfer of technology and the construction of facilities for the future licensed production of the aircraft, including the fifth-generation fighter," said Alexander Fomin, deputy director of the Federal Service on Military-Technical Cooperation.

Russia's advanced multirole fighter is being developed by the Sukhoi aircraft maker, part of Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), along with India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), under a preliminary intergovernmental agreement signed in October 2007.

The first prototype is scheduled to make its maiden flight before the end of 2009.

Last November, Russia and Brazil signed a series of agreements on military technology cooperation which emphasize the protection of intellectual property rights and technology secrets.

More:
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20090407/120955182.html

[ohio2007]

6. Whatever happened to the choppers Russia agreed to supply Iraq?

Are these the same ones?

lol

My guess is they are

[Blandocyte]

7. Oh, Eff!

How did the military industrial complex in this country miss out on THAT deal?

[rabs]

8. Why the military industrial complex lost out

As Peace Patriot said upthread, the bushistas refused to sell aircraft parts to Venezuela for F-16s it had purchased years before. So that miffed Hugo Chavez and a couple of years ago he went to Moscow and ordered 24 of the firecrackers below. Sukhoi Su-30 MK2

It was a $1.5 bbbillion deal that the U.S. industrial complex lost out. The Russians delivered the last of the 24 Sukhoi this past December. Venezuela has also ordered 54 helicopters from the Russians for another billion dollars or more.

[Vidar]

9. Good for Brasil & Russia. Our insidious influence in that region needs to be countered.