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Orel escribió:De Ejercitosdelmundo: SuperTucano
Flightglobal.com escribió:Blackwater seeks Super Tucano acquisition for trainer role
By Stephen Trimble
Security and training company Blackwater USA confirmed that it has applied for a license to acquire one Embraer Super Tucano light attack trainer.
The acquisition is on hold pending licensing approval by the US government, a Blackwater spokeswoman said.
The aircraft would launch a new pilot training programme for Blackwater, which provides a broad range of training and operational services for military and law enforcement clients.
The Super Tucano programme would be limited to providing for US personnel only, the spokeswoman adds, and the aircraft would not be allowed to leave the country. Por el momento
The pending license also mandates that all weapons, including the 12.7mm, wing-mounted guns and provisions for smart bomb stores, are not used as part of the training mission.
The pending deal for the two-seat Super Tucano would launch Blackwater's first training programme dedicated towards a light attack jet.Así se empieza siempre Brazil and Columbia both employ the Super Tucano to battle drug smugglers and insurgents.
The US Air Force, meanwhile, is soliciting for bids to acquire a new fleet of counter-insurgency aircraft on behalf of the Iraqi Air Force. Volveremos sobre esto
Reese Ewing (Reuters) escribió:The deal between Embraer and Blackwater subsidiary EP Aviation is estimated at $4.5 million, the local O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper said, adding that the plane was registered with the U.S. Federal Aviation Agency under N314TG.Apuntaoslo
The sleek black and gray 314-B1 Super Tucano propeller- driven fighter, which resembles a World War Two P-51 Mustang, was flown from Embraer headquarters in Sao Jose dos Campos in February to a corporate airport in Elizabeth City (Os acordais del Polar400 del hilo de UAVs y donde paraba), Virginia.
Blackwater President Gary Jackson's spokesman confirmed the sale of the aircraft and that it would be used in training exercises, the report said. The plane is the same as is used by the Brazilian Air Force, but the dual 0.50 caliber wing-mounted machine guns were removed, the report said.
The sale would have likely been cleared by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and negotiated directly with the U.S. government as Brazilian law forbids selling military equipment to companies or for use in existing wars.
Christian (Defensetech) escribió:Secret Program Works to Field SEAL Plane
In a move that harkens back to the days of recycled World War II torpedo bombers sheep-dipped as close air support planes, the Navy intends to field a limited number of turbo-prop attack planes outfitted with the most modern surveillance, tracking and weapons systems to help special ops forces keep track of bad guys and, in a pinch, put warheads on foreheads.
Call it an A-1 Skyraider on steroids '' a “Back to the Futureâ€-resurrection of a kind of plane last seen pounding enemy positions with rockets, guns and bombs over Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in the 1960s.
[Code named “Imminent Fury†(Fijaos en la foto, de Orel, debajo de la matrícula dice "Fury") the classified, year-long program has so far produced one fully-outfitted plane and is set to field four more to directly support SEALs and other operators on the battlefield in Afghanistan.
According to a source close to the program who declined to be named, the Navy has leased an EMB-314 Super Tucano for the job Made by the Brazilian aerospace company Embraer, it is now being tested on desert ranges in California and the service's top test facility at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md. The Navy loaded it up with sensors and weapons systems that “would make an F-16 pilot blush,.”the source said.
With top end electro-optical and infrared sensors, laser and GPS-guided bombs, rockets, twin .50 cal. machine guns, encrypted radios '' and even the capability to tie in UAV surveillance feeds '' the Super Tucano outfitted for the SEALs is a ground-pounder's angel from above.
Military.com contacted the Navy for comment on this story, but despite a detailed public briefing on the program in March by a high-ranking program official, the service declined to elaborate on the program other than to say in a written statement: “Imminent Fury is a classified Navy initiative to address urgent warfighter needs. Initial developmental testing has been promising and the Navy is currently conducting discussions with our Joint partners on various courses of action as this initiative moves forward.â€
News of the Imminent Fury program comes as commanders in Afghanistan wrestle with the persistent problem of civilian casualties resulting from errant or mistaken bomb strikes '' typically from aircraft high above the battlefield.
A recent investigation report on a high-profile friendly-fire incident in Farah province showed that high-altitude B-1 bombers had little ability to discriminate enemy from civilians during several bombings in support of Marine spec ops forces under Taliban assault.
Many argue that low-altitude aircraft that can fly for long periods over combat zones loaded with various weapons are needed to avoid such incidents. For advocates of the Imminent Fury program, the Super Tucano '' with its five-hour endurance '' fits the bill for a so-called “counter insurgency aircraft.â€
“The SEALs said ‘we want a persistent capability at low cost, small footprint and turbo-prop aircraft to do armed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions,' ”the source close to the program said. “Everyone who gets briefed on this program has been blown away.â€
Over the past year, both Navy and Air Force pilots have flown the leased Super Tucano in tests. According to the source, the single-engine, two-pilot plane has successfully dropped both laser and GPS guided bombs, as well as a wide range of guided and unguided rockets.
According to statistics from an Embraer brochure, the EMB-314 has a maximum speed of nearly 370 mph and a maximum ceiling of 35,000 feet. The plane can take off and land in just under 3,000 feet and can carry a maximum load of nearly 3,500 pounds.
The initial cadre of four SEAL-supporting Super Tucanos will be flown by Navy pilots activated as individual augmentees, and multiple sources close to the program report that aviators are clamoring to get involved with the program.
But it is still unclear whether Imminent Fury will get off the ground since funding for the program is in doubt. Sources say there is no money earmarked for the program in the 2010 budget (!No aparece en el presupuesto¡) but that the service “is hoping for some reprogramming authority”to move funds from other accounts to buy the four planes requested by the SEALs.
choco escribió:Imminent Fury arrancó en 2008, en 2009 tenían el avión de pruebas y el programa en marcha, y en 2010 tiene que estar funcionando todo. ¿Cuanto se habría tardado por la via burocratico-militar en elegir el avión, hacer el concurso, seleccionar pilotos, entrenarlos, etc....? Si es que como la iniciativa privada no hay ¿Verdad Polluelo?
polluelo escribió:Desde luego: sin concursos, sin publicidad, sin normas, sin nada, esto lo hacemos así en secreto y listo.
Luego nos echamos las manos a la cabeza cuando detienen a fulano porque se ha llevado lo que no hay en los escritos o cuando Roldán le mete mano a cientos de millones que no estaban reflejados en ningún lado y que no controlaba nadie, etc, etc. Total, como el dinero es público no tiene dueño así que el que mas chifle capaor. Y encima lo justificamos porque se gana en rapidez esquivando las normas que hay para que haya claridad.
Choco escribió:Gracias a Ruso por descubrime esta fuente de diversión.
ruso escribió:Choco escribió:Gracias a Ruso por descubrime esta fuente de diversión.
Si lo dices por el Mapsgoogle, el Google Earth es mejor, con las mismas fotos pero más posibilidades y más cómodo para ojear, aunque sin la posibilidad de enlazar la página.
ruso escribió:Y otra cosa, la foto de satélite de Bagram es del 8 de octubre de 2004.
polluelo escribió:Un montón de cosas muy interesantes, leeroslas
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