https://www.airdatanews.com/embraer-will-have-a-super-tucano-assembly-line-in-portugal-report/
According to CNN Portugal, Portugal will be buying at least 12 units of the new A-29N Super Tucano for it's Air-Force.
Those units are said to be "produced" at Embaer's subsidiary OGMA in Portugal. There's also talks for the company's medium sized cargo C-390 Millenium to assembled at OGMA's plant.
With those plants the company hopes to expands it's business into the European continent, mainly focusing on NATO countries.
As Greece as Austria have already asked RFI for the C-390.
it belongs in a museum
Neat. Cheap way to bomb terrarists.
>Neat. Cheap way to bomb terrarists.
Not so fast
Reminds me of this
The mighty potato air force. Soon to be more capable than RuAF.
What an odd looking drone, it looks like a Reaper drone but the propeller is on the wrong side and they shoved a couple of guys in there for some reason.
Why did America retire the Skyraider instead of modernizing it?
The A4 is sexy asf and is still a capable airframe,all it needs is a full on remodernisation and it would be a better plane than any thing Embraer could make
~~*they*~~ needed a new platform.
This is moronic, what COIN needs does Portugal have?
Probably for cheap force projection into their former colonies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese-speaking_African_countries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency_in_Cabo_Delgado
Yeah, it must be about this
Algarve separatists need to be put down.
Portugal routinely sends peacekeeping forces into Africa.
>HUMVEE's in 2023
Why?
Full video has one guy running a Walther P-38 which is still the standard issue sidearm of the Portuguese army (though Glocks were purchased).
That's cool though, but for COIN nowadays, Humvees are deathtraps, might as well either use a full-on APC or MRAP.
>one guy running a Walther P-38 which is still the standard issue sidearm of the Portuguese army (though Glocks were purchased).
Our defense budget is very humiliating pls understand.
cool drones tho
I still get shit for this from my friends to this very day, whenever the use of drones is brought up and I mention some shit that's been put to use. Well deserved too I suppose.
In a slightly related note, and since I don't know much about the Super Tucano or similar planes. Would these have any use case for maritime patrols or operations where it would be a better choice than other airfract? Drones included. Portugal and Spain have its fair share of issues with drug trade but I doubt I'd ever see these being useful in that scenario in the way a drone wouldn't be.
This deal is more about Embraer wanting to use Portugal as a "base" to offer their products to NATO countries.
Well I don't doubt that in the slightest. I was mostly hoping we'd get some mileage out of it asides from the potential for thankless COIN. I guess it's not a bad thing either way.
I think the C-390 production will also be there.
Smol military budget.
Portugal Paratroopers are always doing counter insurgencies in their former colonies in Africa.
AFRICA