DefenceTalkBrazilian aerospace company Embraer SA on Monday settled with US authorities for $205 million over bribery allegations in the Dominican Republic, Saudi Arabia, and Mozambique. The company took in nearly $84 million in profits on aircraft sales after paying bribes, the US Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission announced jointly. “Embraer paid millions of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/brazils-embraer-in-205-mn-us-bribery-settlement-68478/

DefenceTalkOn 27 October 2014 Saab announced the conclusion of a contract with the Brazilian Federal Government for the development and production of 36 Gripen NG aircraft. The contract has now come into effect as all required conditions have been fulfilled. Today, the order value of approximately SEK39.3 billion is booked by Saab as order intake. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/gripen-ng-contract-with-brazil-becomes-effective-65341/

DefenceTalkRussian President Vladimir Putin is to meet world leaders on Wednesday including China’s Xi Jinping and India’s Narendra Modi ahead of the start of a summit of the BRICS emerging economies. Putin is to hold bilateral talks with leaders of the other BRICS countries — China, Brazil, South Africa and India — in the city […]https://www.defencetalk.com/putin-hosts-brics-summit-amid-standoff-with-west-64852/

DefenceTalkDefence and security company Saab and the Brazilian Ministry of Defence, through the Aeronautics Command (COMAER), have signed a contract for Gripen NG weapon acquisition. The total order value is approximately USD 245 million. The order is expected to be booked by Saab during the second half of 2015. The weapon acquisition contract includes weapon […]https://www.defencetalk.com/saab-signs-contract-with-brazil-on-weapon-acquisition-for-gripen-ng-63982/

DefenceTalkEmbraer today successfully performed the first flight of the new military transport and aerial refueling jet, the KC-390. Test pilots Mozart Louzada and Marcos Salgado de Oliveira Lima and flight test engineers Raphael Lima and Roberto Becker flew the aircraft for 1 hour and 25 minutes, conducting an evaluation of flying qualities and performance. “This […]https://www.defencetalk.com/embraer-kc-390-military-transport-aircraft-makes-first-flight-62600/

DefenceTalkBrazil and Russia could sign a contract on the delivery of Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense systems to the Latin American country as early as in the first half of 2015, Brazilian Ambassador to Russia Antonio Jose Vallim Guerreiro said on Wednesday. “We hope very much that the contract will be signed this semester because the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/brazil-to-sign-pantsir-s1-air-defense-deal-with-russia-by-mid-2015-62309/

DefenceTalkBrazilian President Dilma Rousseff inaugurated Friday a naval shipyard that will oversee construction of a nuclear-powered submarine and four others to patrol Brazil’s long coastline and deepwater oil reserves. The project in southeastern Rio state, with the first vessel set for 2017 delivery, emerged from a $10 billion partnership with France dating from a 2008 […]https://www.defencetalk.com/brazils-rousseff-inaugurates-nuclear-sub-shipyard-61139/

DefenceTalkThe Brazilian Navy has selected MBDA’s Sea Ceptor to provide the local area air defence for its next generation Tamandaré class corvettes. After the UK’s Royal Navy (RN) and the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN), Brazil’s is now the third navy to have chosen Sea Ceptor. With discussions also well advanced with other leading navies […]https://www.defencetalk.com/brazil-picks-mbdas-sea-ceptor-for-new-corvettes-61076/

DefenceTalkDefence and security company Saab has signed a contract with the Brazilian Federal Government (Ministry of Defense through the Aeronautics Command, COMAER) covering the development and production of 36 Gripen NG fighter aircraft for the Brazilian Air Force. The total order value is approximately SEK 39.3 billion. Saab and COMAER have also signed an Industrial […]https://www.defencetalk.com/saab-and-brazil-sign-contract-for-gripen-ng-60862/

DefenceTalkHelibras’ contract to modernize 34 AS365 K Panther helicopters for the Brazilian Army Aviation (AvEx) to the K2 version, known as the Super Panther, reached an important milestone in August following the successful completion of the first technical-operational evaluation. The first upgraded machine demonstrated 98% availability in the evaluation phase, during which the aircraft performed […]https://www.defencetalk.com/panther-helicopter-successfully-upgraded-for-brazilian-army-60589/