Guatemala Looks to Super Tucanos for its Air Force
Apr 11, 2013 16:20 UTCLatest updates[?]: Guatemala places their $170 million order - and why the radars, too?
Embraer’s EMB 314/ A-29 Super Tucano has become the world’s leading counter-insurgency aircraft, securing customers across Latin America and into Africa and Asia. Now Guatemala looks set to join Embraer’s customer roster with an order for 6 aircraft, a command center for surveillance data, and a trio of 3D Argentinian air control radars. The country’s fleet of A-37 Dragonfly jets retains just a couple of serviceable aircraft, and the EMB-314 has been the default replacement for most Latin American air forces.
That’s certainly the case for Guatemala, which has special reasons to need that switch…
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