South Africa and Brazil have a R300 million in-principle agreement to develop Denel's A-Darter short-range air-to-air missile from a prototype to an operational system, Denel chief executive Shaun Liebenberg has said Today.
"It will be a good team effort between Denel, Brazil, the SA Air Force (SAAF) and the Department of Defence. It is not 100 percent signed off yet, but is 80 to 90 percent there," he said, adding that Brazil had placed a formal commitment on the table. It would be signed in Brazil in the next few weeks.
The Brazilian daily, O Estado de Sao Paulo, reported at the weekend that the investment, and the purchase of nine second-hand F5 Freedom Fighters from Saudi Arabia, which will cost a further R24 million, follows the passing of a law in 2004 authorising the Brazilian air force to shoot down aircraft used by drug traffickers.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is presently in South Africa for the Progressive Governance Summit.
According to the publication, Engineering News, the A-Darter was being developed by Denel Aerospace Services (DAS -- previously known as Kentron), and was not to be confused with the R-Darter missile, also a DAS product, in service with the SAAF as the V4.
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