Brazil will hold off plans for fighter jets purchase for another twelve months
Brazil will hold off plans to purchase new fighter jets until at least 2012 as the government cuts spending to fight the global economic crisis, Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota said in New York.
The purchase of jet fighters was discussed in New York in a meeting between Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff and France's Nicholas Sarkozy, who would like to see Brazil select the Rafale jets produced by France's Dassault Aviation AVMC.PA.
Other contenders are Boeing with the F/A-18 Super Hornet and Sweden's Saab with the Gripen NG.
President Rousseff told Sarkozy that plans to rebuild Brazil's fleet of jet fighters will depend on the economy.
“Depending on the evolution of the global economic situation, if the crisis turns out to be less severe than some imagine, then those plans can resume next year” Patriota quoted Rousseff as saying.
Rousseff said that the suspension of the bidding process this year was because of extraordinary budget cuts implemented in anticipation of the world crisis.
The contract for 36 jet fighters could cost anywhere between 3.5 and 7 billion dollars.
Former president Lula da Silva before leaving office expressed his preference for the French Rafale but the contract was never signed and the decision was left for his successor President Rousseff who postponed the operation.
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Let's put those 7 billion to better use.
If it must be military, then let us together (UNASUR) develop a modern and appropiate defensive Swarm Technology based on hyper and supersonic drones and missiles.
That would be the only effective deterrent against the real agressors and pirates of the 21'th century.
We could get a hell of a lot “bees” and “wasps” for that money.
brazil and argentina, of the coast of Africa fighting the real pirates of the 21st century,
but of course you are right, the argie navy is rowing boats is it not lol.
No it's not, Chilean navy is equal to the Argentine navy and Compare to the Brazilian navy, the Brazilians beats you both.
It's an interesting one, quantitvely I'd go for Brazil (1 Aircraft Carrier, 9 Frigates & 5 Submarines) over Chile (8 Frigates, 4 Submarines), but qualitavly I'd say Chile at the moment.
If you look at the Brazilian fleet, the carrier is a Clemenceau class (the Clemenceau was riddled with so much toxic waste and asbestos that ordinary shipbreakers wouldn't touch it. I don't think the other ship in the class was built substantially differently.
The frigates are six Type 21 frigates and three Type 22 batch 1 frigates.
The Submarines are all Type 209s, which while fairly good aren't exactly in the first flush of youth.
Compare with the Chilean Navy:
Their frigates are a mixture of Type 23 frigates (3), four ex-Royal Netherlands Navy frigates (which are under 20 years old) and one Type 22 batch 2 ship.
The submarines are also a mix, two are 209s, but the other two are new (i.e. launched less than ten years ago) Scorpiene class boats.
Of course, the Brazilians are looking (in the indeterminate future) looking at modernising their fleet (Scorpienes, and potentially either type 26 or FREMM Frigates) in the next decade or two.
Just because you have more ships / subs /planes /men
Does not mean that you will win,
I believe experience and a lot of luck and planning may help
Surprise does pretty much trump everything though, if you can sink or cripple your opponent's ships before they can fire at you then it doesn't matter how much more advanced their ships were...
This article has certainly become the home of Advanced Military Strategists....
I'm humbled by their insight!
I wouldn´t have a chance against them on a round of Counter-Strike or WOW
:-)))
Very childish,
An answer to a question is just that,
But then again if you have a better answer to the question,
Then lets hear it,
If not go dig some turnips up,
They might show you a thing or to,
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