Brazil to discuss fighter jet purchase
Published: 4 Nov 10 08:09 CET | Print version
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Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Wednesday that discussions would "soon" take place with his successor Dilma Rousseff with a view to deciding who would win a multi-billion-dollar fighter jet tender.
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Brazil has pushed off for months declaring a winner in an international competition to supply it with 36 modern fighter aircraft for a value of between $4 billion and $7 billion.
France's Rafale by Dassault, Sweden's Gripe NG by Saab, and the US-made F/A-18 Super Hornet by Boeing are all on the shortlist for the tender.
Lula initially said a year ago that negotiations were underway to buy the Rafale, but then stepped back from that position to see through the contest.
A final decision was put on hold since March until Brazil's presidential election was over.
Rousseff, Lula's former cabinet chief, easily won a Sunday runoff and will take over as head of state on January 1 next year.
Both Lula and Rousseff will be attending a G20 summit in South Korea November 11-12 at which French President Nicolas Sarkozy and US President Barack Obama were also expected.
Brazil has insisted on full transfer of technology in the deal so it can build its own advanced military aircraft in the future.
Seperately, media reports indicated on Wednesday that South Africa could not afford to keep all of the 26 Gripen aircraft that it has ordered in the air. The news was based on an internal report from the country's defence ministry.
A total of 16 Gripen aircraft have so far been delivered to South Africa.
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The fat men laughed whilst puffing on their cigars giving the young serving girl dirty looks whilst rubbing their crutches.
"It's great. You let us build some factories, pay crap, reduce labour rights make offshore tax incentive profits and we will sell you weapons at a discount. You can just pay for them out of the taxes of your sheeple and human cattle, ha ha ha."
They all laughed puffing on their cigars as they reached over their gross bellies for the their flies in expectant under age oral satisfaction.
Another great global deal done for the sociopathic self-styled elite.
"Fu** you Swedish tax payer, fu** you Brazilian tax payer." and they all laughed in unison whilst guzzling champagne.
Note: Did anyone else mark the irony of the tattoo next to this post?
On the other hand Lula has the policy to keep close cooperation and alignment to to France since they have a permanent seat at United Nation Security Council, a position which Brazil also wants to have. Thus Lula is more inclined to buy Dassault's Raffales.
To solve such standoff, the Brazilian press claim that government will buy half of the fighters jet from Sweden and half from France.
Even more embarrasing on a Swedish news site.
The operational costs of the Rafale will bleed the FAB to a standstill but I guess that wouldn't be in an AFP bulletin...
Once the middle class has been strangled to death, they will "review" their policies. Knowing how the socialists operate in Brazil this will probably involve blaming the Air Force.
In the meantime, by the time they finally decide something they will be pulling their old aircraft with oxen...