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February 6, 2015
Attack helicopters: Brazilian Army agrees to also test the Airbus Tiger
The direction of Helibras company is trying to facilitate with the European group Airbus,
a test session at Tiger helicopter
to the officers of the Flying Trials Group (GEA) of the Army Aviation Command (CAVEX) of Brazil,
responsible for evaluating the main attack helicopters models available on the market.
The Brazilian Ground Force plans to acquire 36 rotorcraft attack in three lots of 12 units each
- the first in the period from 2016 to 2019,
as stipulated by the Materials Capabilities Getting plane defined by the Strategic Plan of the Army.
So far, the models vying for the preference of the Brazilian military are
the T-129 Mangusta modernized - Italian design -
the American AH-1Z Viper (known successor AH-1 Super Cobra), and
the Russian Mi-28NE.
In September last year, a GEA pilot traveled to Russia, accompanied by the then Commander of Land Operations, Eduardo Dias army general of Costa Villas Boas - new commander of the Army - and the Commander of CAVEX, Brigadier General Furlan Achilles Neto, to test the Mi-28NE.
The group visited the factory of aircraft and the center simulators in the cities of Moscow and Rontov. The Russian helicopter analysis report has been sent by CAVEX to COTER in Brasilia.
There are about three weeks, the direction of Helibras obtained authorization from the CAVEX to mediate the access of GEA officials to Tiger,
currently used in many armies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
The Tiger is a twin-engine Airbus unit of approximately three tons, capable of a speed of 315 km / h, so a DGBT 30mm cannon.
Their autonomy, full load (of arms and fuel) is 600 km.
According to a source from the Ministry of Defence heard exclusively by the strong,
the tests in Tiger depend only on receipt of an invitation letter signed by the management of Airbus.
