....some three years ago, I made a broad sweep through the various technologies where Brazil had made its mark.
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Today some collaborators have drawn attention to purported US government intervention in the making to supply a dozen Embraer A-29 Super Tucano turboprop light attack aircraft to the Nigerian military. My immediate reaction was to point out that Embraer is a noted Brazilian aircraft company. I dug deeper. It appears, (see Wikipedia below), that collaboration with US engine manufacturers has provided the American connection. The US needed to approve all such sales. We can all recall that third party entities could not incorporate US technologies in their products sold to Iran until recently.
Today some collaborators have drawn attention to purported US government intervention in the making to supply a dozen Embraer A-29 Super Tucano turboprop light attack aircraft to the Nigerian military. My immediate reaction was to point out that Embraer is a noted Brazilian aircraft company. I dug deeper. It appears, (see Wikipedia below), that collaboration with US engine manufacturers has provided the American connection. The US needed to approve all such sales. We can all recall that third party entities could not incorporate US technologies in their products sold to Iran until recently.
Which takes us back to the basic issue that I had addressed, ie Nigeria's unwillingness to wean itself from dependence on other nations, advanced or not, in just about every sector. From the Brazilian/Embraer example, it is clearly NEVER easy. It is also not meant for jokers, the type we have been having in governance in Nigeria.
Exerpt:
The aircraft differs from the baseline EMB-312 Tucano trainer aircraft in several respects. It is powered by a more powerful 1,200 kW (1,600 shp) Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-68Cengine (compared to the EMB-312's 560 kW (750 shp) powerplant); has a strengthened airframe to sustain higher g loads and increase fatigue life to 18,000–12,000 hours in operational environments; a reinforced landing gear to handle greater takeoff weights and heavier stores load, up to 1,550 kilograms (3,300 pounds); Kevlar armour protection; two internal wing-mounted .50 calibre machine guns (with 200 rounds of ammunition each);[9] capacity to carry various ordnance on five weapon hardpoints including Giat NC621 20 mm cannon pods, Mk 81/82 bombs, MAA-1 Piranha air-to-air missiles (AAMs), BLG-252 cluster bombs and SBAT-70/19 or LAU-68A/G rocket pods on its underwing stations; and has a night-vision goggle (NVG)-compatible "glass cockpit" with hands-on-throttle-and-stick (HOTAS) controls; provision for a datalink; a video camera and recorder; an embedded mission-planning capability; forward-looking infrared (FLIR); chaff/flare dispensers; missile approach warning receiver systems (MAWS) and radar warning receivers (RWRs); zero-zero ejection seats.[10]The structure is corrosion-protected and the side-hinged canopy has a windshield able to withstandbird strike impacts up to 500 km/h (270 kn).[11]
The aircraft differs from the baseline EMB-312 Tucano trainer aircraft in several respects. It is powered by a more powerful 1,200 kW (1,600 shp) Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-68Cengine (compared to the EMB-312's 560 kW (750 shp) powerplant); has a strengthened airframe to sustain higher g loads and increase fatigue life to 18,000–12,000 hours in operational environments; a reinforced landing gear to handle greater takeoff weights and heavier stores load, up to 1,550 kilograms (3,300 pounds); Kevlar armour protection; two internal wing-mounted .50 calibre machine guns (with 200 rounds of ammunition each);[9] capacity to carry various ordnance on five weapon hardpoints including Giat NC621 20 mm cannon pods, Mk 81/82 bombs, MAA-1 Piranha air-to-air missiles (AAMs), BLG-252 cluster bombs and SBAT-70/19 or LAU-68A/G rocket pods on its underwing stations; and has a night-vision goggle (NVG)-compatible "glass cockpit" with hands-on-throttle-and-stick (HOTAS) controls; provision for a datalink; a video camera and recorder; an embedded mission-planning capability; forward-looking infrared (FLIR); chaff/flare dispensers; missile approach warning receiver systems (MAWS) and radar warning receivers (RWRs); zero-zero ejection seats.[10]The structure is corrosion-protected and the side-hinged canopy has a windshield able to withstandbird strike impacts up to 500 km/h (270 kn).[11]
Did I bore you? Please accept my apologies. I was not addressing the masses.
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