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VIDEO Rare video of Vann at Kontum supervising the evacuation there to blunt the 1972 Easter Invasion by the NVA. A 2. 9 Super Tucano aircraft and related equipment to help the Nigerian Air Force in their fight against the jihadist group Boko Haram. Initial permission had been granted under the previous Obama administration but was put on hold following Nigerias bombing of a refugee camp in January. Congress is expected to receive notification on the sale of 1. Super Tucanos and sophisticated targeting gear within weeks, and Trump plans to go ahead with other foreign defense sales delayed under Obama by human rights concerns. Super Tucano. Embraers EMB 3. Super Tucano trainer and light attack turboprop continues to rack up global orders, solidifying its position as the globes pre eminent manned counter insurgency aircraft. The latest order set of about 1. African states Angola, Burkina Faso, and Mauritania. They join Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Indonesia as customers for this aircraft. The Super Tucano is known as the A 2. ALX in Brazil, but abroad, its the EMB 3. Embraers widely used EMB 3. Tucano trainer. A 2. Embraer is trying to shift the designation. The Super Tucano offers better flight performance than the EMB 3. Tucano, plus armoring and wing mounted machine guns, weapons integration with advanced surveillance and targeting pods, precision guided bombs, and even air to air missiles. This makes it an excellent territorial defense and close support plane for low budget air forces, as well as a surveillance asset with armed attack capability. Brazil uses it this way, for instance, alongside very advanced EMB 1. Meanwhile, in AfricaContracts Key Eventsclick to view fullIn March 2. Embraer announced that the total value of all 3 contracts to Angola, Burkina Faso, and Mauritania comes to more than 1. This includes extensive support, training, and replacement parts packages. In April 2. 01. 3, they announced a 4th customer Senegal, and Ghana joined that list in 2. In January 2. 01. United Arab Emirates committed UAE to procure a couple dozen Super Tucanos on behalf of Iraq in a deal that is not quite settled. Angola. Angolan EMB 3. Angola sits far down Africas southwestern coast. The regime maintains a sizable and advanced fighter force by African standards, at least on paper. Questions abound as to how many of the of those Soviet and Russian fighters are still operational. They have ordered 6 Super Tucanos for counter insurgency roles, which will join 6 ex Peruvian EMB 3. Tucanos that were bought in 2. Angola is an authoritarian regime, and the countrys economy would be in desperate shape if not for recent oil drilling activity off of its coasts. A 2. 01. 0 report by the conservative US Heritage Foundation tabbed Angola as Chinas 1 supplier of oil, passing Saudi Arabia. As is so often true in Africa, the next question involves how much of that oil wealth is ever seen by the population at large. The country went through a long civil war that lasted from the 1. Cabinda is still a focus of separatist activity. Jan 3. 11. 3 The first 3 Super Tucanos are formally handed over to the National Air Force of Angloa, at a ceremony held in Embraers Gaviao Peixoto facility near Sao Paulo, Brazil. These first 3 aircraft were to be delivered in 2. Angola is far from Malis headline making war, but as noted above, the country has its own problems. Embraer. Burkina Faso. This landlocked country in West Africa had already received their 3 Super Tucanos by the time the arch 2. Adding the Super Tucanos gives the country operational fixed wing combat aircraft again, though theyre also an AT 8. Air Tractor customer. The AT 8. 02. U variant can easily be reconfigured for armed roles, or act as the locust sprayer the countrys AT 8. In that part of the world, the locusts are a security risk that can easily measure up to any regional turmoil. Burkina Faso has a good record of free and fair elections by African standards, and dealt with widespread spring 2. Its neighbors are Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, and Togo. In March 2. 01. 2, we wrote that some of these neighbors harbor regional turmoil that risks spilling over. The Super Tucanos should help to keep an eye on things, and provide a low key deterrent to trouble. Things certainly have spilled over in Mali, and the conflict is not confined to that countrys borders. Burkina Faso is a member of the USAs Trans Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership TSCTP, and its Super Tucanos are probably fairly busy at the moment. Ghana. Ghana sits directly south of Burkina Faso, between the Ivory Coast and Togo. Until recently lauded as a model of development among its sub Saharan peers, the country has been facing rising inflation and public deficits as of late. A mounting backlog of unpaid wages to defense and security contractors has been piling up. Piracy has also been booming in the Gulf of Guinea, with an oil tanker gone missing for a week off the coast of Ghana in June 2. Mark Owen Woyongo, at the time Minister of Defense, first said in March 2. Super Tucanos was under consideration, for use at a flying school to be built in Tamale, Ghanas 3rd city. President John Dramani Mahama then confirmed in November 2. Enhanced License Washington State'>Enhanced License Washington State. Super Tucanos, along with Chinese Z 9 helicopters, more M 1. Russian helos, and an additional C 2. The Z 9s are expected to be delivered in June 2. Tamale training base. The Super Tucanos are meant to be used for training and attack. Confirmation came on 1. February from President John Dramani Mahama, indicating that five Super Tucanos will be purchased, along with the Z 9s and other equipment. December 1. 41. 5 Ghana is set to increase its fleet of Embraer Super Tucanos in 2. The order of four more of the aircraft will see a previous contract increase to nine in total. The acquisition is also to include logisitical support and training for pilots as well as maintenance training for mechanics. The announcement comes as the Ghanaian government has been improving the capabilities of its air force to support troops participating in UN peace keeping missions in the region. Mauritania. Mauritanian EMB 3. This country, which sits on Africas northwest coasts, is simply mentioned as a customer that chose the A 2. Super Tucano to carry out counter insurgency missions. The country has a very small air force, and its 3 4 ex French EMB 3. Tucano aircraft are old. Given the overall order total given, and generally understood costs for the Super Tucano, they may have bought just 1 aircraft. The country is active in the US led Operation Enduring Freedom Trans Sahara OEF TS, including operations across borders in cooperation with its neighbor Mali, and has fought a number of skirmishes in Mauritania with al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. This has been a balancing act for the USA, which has also issued reports citing Mauritanias Arab rulers for organized repression of its black population, up to and including slavery and human trafficking. Solidworks 2010 64 Bit With Crack here. Thats a very old pattern for the area, but its even more distressing to current sensibilities. It wasnt distressing enough to block sales, however, even in a racially mixed country like Brazil. Oct 2. 21. 2 Embraer hands over the first light attack and advanced training A 2.