Thread: Brazil To Buy 28 Embraer KC-390s

I hope IAF would seriously look into the KC-390 project and see how it performs compared to Hercules, A400M and An-32.

The Russian aviation industry is falling apart (what a shame) and US aviation products come with too many strings attached and A400M is way overpriced.

India needs to seriously replace its aging fleet of 100 An-32s.

Interesting how Brazilian airforce went to Farnborough in the UK to buy from a Brazilian manufacturer... You figure they could have saved some trouble and stayed home. Or maybe this is just a show of support for your countrymen at the world's biggest air show.

Assuming they do what they're supposed to, they could pick up a lot of sales from the aging Hercules. If I were Embraer, I'd try to enter into some kind of partnership with Boeing and also look into a longer version to go up against the -30 Hercs.

Honestly Its a good thing to see Brazil developing its aviation industry and becoming a decent industrial power in its own right. South america has held so much potential if only they could get their political strings together long enough to help the populace out and develop the countries. With some of their other developments in bio fuel production in a few years I think you'll see Brazil emerge far more on the world stage.

More specifically Brazil has a interesting new aircraft here that they appear to be developing At this point it doesn't seem to have the short field take off performance of the 130. but it is notably cheaper. Personally I would like to see Lock-Mart develop an airplane somewhere between H and the J models avionics wise for the cheapness factor and see what they can do to set it up so that it can accept either a turbo-prop or a turbo fan as a field level change. something of an engine module stop and then sell the modules separate. The fan would give a slightly higher cruising speed with more fuel efficiency and probably a slightly larger grossing carrying capacity at a slightly longer range. The turbo prop short field service and rugged durability for those only lightly improved fields when needed.

Having the same systems across the rest of their aircraft decreases training and maintenance costs. I think you'd see a bunch of countries buy a dozen or two to replace their old worn out 130 fleets and they'd also buy a half dozen of the turbo prop kits to maintain the short / unimproved field performance when needed.