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The Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano (English: Super Toucan), also named ALX or A-29, is a Brazilian turboprop light attack aircraft designed and built by Embraer as a development of the Embraer EMB 312 Tucano. The A-29 Super Tucano carries a wide variety of weapons, including precision-guided munitions, and was designed to be a low-cost system ...
The A-29 Super Tucano won the Light Air Support contract and was used by the Afghan Air Force. The Light Attack/Armed Reconnaissance (LAAR) or Light Air Support (LAS) program was a United States Air Force program for a new light counter-insurgency, ground attack and reconnaissance aircraft. [1]
Sierra Nevada Corp./Embraer A-29. A U.S.-manufactured, modified version of the Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano. The A-29 was one of two finalists of the Light Attack/Armed Reconnaissance program, and the winner of a U.S. contract to provide aircraft and training for the Afghan Air Force. The Nigerian Air Force has purchased 12 A-29s as well. [43] [44]
Mil Mi-35: As of 2015, 6 in Air Force service, to be partially replaced by 20 Embraer A-29 Super Tucano [7] Nieuport 24: Unknown number obtained from 1921; Pilatus PC-12: Special operations ISR/ light transport/ utility aircraft, operational from 2014; Potez 25: One obtained in 1928, destroyed in 1929
ASUNCION (Reuters) -Paraguay is negotiating with Brazil to buy six Embraer Super Tucano A-29 fighter planes for $96 million as part of its efforts to fight drug trafficking, Defense Minister Oscar ...
The squadron was reactivated at Moody Air Force Base on 1 October 2014 as part of the 14th Flying Training Wing flying the A-29 Super Tucano. [2] By December 2014 the initial cadre of pilot and maintenance trainers and three A-29s were in place.
Two Indonesian Air Force Embraer EMB-314E Super Tucano (A-29) aircraft, operated by Skadron Udara 21, crashed under unknown circumstances on the slopes of Mount Bromo, near Keduwung Village, Puspo District, Pasuruan, East Java.
An Afghan A-29 Super Tucano over Kabul, Afghanistan. Twenty attack aircraft that could also be used for training and to provide the Army with close air support were desired. The two contenders were the Embraer A-29 Super Tucano and the Beechcraft AT-6. Embraer won the previous contract but the tendering process was cancelled after it was ...