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Video: Super Tucano at AirVenture
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| 28 July 2012
| Russ Niles
Posted on 08/08/2012 4:47:02 AM PDT by smokingfrog
Embraer launched a public relations offensive at AirVenture Oshkosh, WI.
Super Tucano at AirVenture
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: airforce; embraer; tucano
The Super Tucano was in the news earlier this year after beating Hawker Beechcraft’s T-6 for an Air Force contract worth more than $350 million for 20 airplanes slated to go to the Afghan military, a deal that was later negated after Hawker Beechcraft filed a lawsuit.
To: smokingfrog
So it would be good to depend on a foreign company for military contracts?
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posted on
08/08/2012 5:09:27 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: smokingfrog
Right! The Afghans are exactly who I want to see get these. Why don’t we arrange to sent a couple hundred to Hamas?
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posted on
08/08/2012 5:28:05 AM PDT
by
arrdon
(Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter.)
To: driftdiver
Martin/Baker makes most of our ejection seats. Our USAF/USN/USMC aviators sure depend on them.
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posted on
08/08/2012 12:50:20 PM PDT
by
paddles
("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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