Launched in 2003, the Embraer A-29 Tremendous Tucano was designed as a flexible mild assault plane with low upkeep prices, appropriate for coaching and counterinsurgency operations. Thus far, armed forces from 15 nations worldwide have chosen it — and in 2015 the Brazilian Air Power hoped to make the United Arab Emirates its sixteenth consumer, with the acquisition of 24 fashions.
The deal, nonetheless, by no means materialized. Moreover, the UAE has since obtained a aircraft that’s so just like the A-29 Tremendous Tucano — and in such curious circumstances — elevating eyebrows amongst Brazil’s army high brass about…
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