Saab and Embraer begin assembling plane in Gavião Peixoto; contract supplies for the acquisition of 40 F-39 Gripen E/F plane, essentially the most trendy in operation in Latin America
the swedish fighter F-39 Gripen E/F begins to be produced in Brazil, on the Gavião Peixoto manufacturing facility, within the inside of São Paulo, six months after getting into into operation within the Brazilian Air Power (FAB). It’s the most trendy plane in operation in Latin America, which is able to equip the first Air Protection Group (1st GDA), situated in Anápolis (GO). President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva inaugurates the meeting line this Tuesday, 9.
The renewal of FAB fighter aviation is without doubt one of the important strategic initiatives of the Ministry of Protection. Initially, it supplied for the acquisition and supply by 2027 of 36 Gripen for US$ 3.77 billion, or R$ 20 billion in present values. One other 4 plane had been included within the contract in 2022, totaling 40 fighters that will probably be produced by Saab in partnership with Embraer.
The FAB can also be finding out the acquisition of one other 26 Gripen via a second contract. The event and buy of the Gripen is without doubt one of the strategic initiatives of the Ministry of Protection taken to President Lula. The ministry has argued that, regardless of the nation’s fiscal difficulties, it’s crucial to make sure the circulate of assets for the mission to proceed.
The final 15 models of the primary batch of 36 fighters will probably be inbuilt Brazil. The settlement for the acquisition of the Gripen supplies for the switch of know-how to Brazil and two-year coaching for 350 professionals who will care for assembling the plane on the Embraer unit in Gavião Peixoto.
There, check pilots from the FAB, Embraer and Saab carried out flight checks, a part of the know-how switch program, in order that the fighters obtained the preliminary working license, earlier than they entered into operation on the Anápolis Air Base (Baan), the place they had been handed over to the first GDA.
The Gripen will progressively exchange the American-made F-5M fighters. This mannequin entered service in Brazil in 1975 and whose modernization, carried out by Embraer, led to 2020. The brand new plane ought to obtain short- and long-range air-to-air missiles, air-to-surface missiles and laser or GPS-guided bombs to be used in opposition to targets on land and sea. The load on exterior armaments may be as much as 7 tons.
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In Gavião Peixoto, the Gripen Design and Growth Community (GDDN) was inbuilt 2016. It’s, in line with Saab, a “know-how switch hub thought of the purpose of integration of firms, authorities events and companions concerned in this system, particularly Embraer”. Presently, Brazilians and Swedes are creating the Gripen E and F fashions “in areas similar to car programs, aeronautical engineering, structural design, programs set up and integration, avionics, man-machine interface, weapons integration and communications”.
In response to Saab, the GDDN is “securely linked to Saab in Sweden and industrial companions in Brazil”. It has simulators for the event of fighter jets in Brazil. That is the place the so-called S-Rig, brief for Programs-Rig, works, the primary Gripen improvement simulator exterior Sweden. This sector helps the actions of the Gripen Flight Take a look at Middle (GFTC) to organize pilots earlier than flight checks.
In 2018, Saab constructed a manufacturing facility in São Bernardo do Campo, within the ABC area of São Paulo, the place the tail cone, aerodynamic brakes, rear and entrance fuselage for the FAB Gripen E are produced. There may be additionally a upkeep laboratory for extremely complicated digital tools. In response to Saab, will probably be on this unit that the upkeep of digital warfare tools and the Gripen’s AESA radar will probably be carried out.
Testes
Gripen began supersonic flight checks in Brazil in March 2021. All of them are performed at excessive altitudes, above 5 thousand meters. The FAB at the moment operates 4 F-39 Gripen on the 1st GDA, in Anápolis. Later this month, one other two plane will probably be delivered to the Air Power.
