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Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Chile receives first four Super Tucanos

A-29 Super TucanoChile has received its first batch of four Embraer EMB-314 Super Tucano trainer/light attack aircraft from a 2008 order for 12 examples.

Handed over at the Brazilian manufacturer's São José dos Campos site in late December, the armed turboprops will be used to deliver a new pilot training capability for the Chilean air force, and operate beneath its Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters for possible combat duty.

"The Chilean air force will now have the flexibility of the best light-attack aircraft for counter-insurgency and irregular warfare [missions]," says Orlando José Ferreira Neto, Embraer's vice-president, defence market.

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