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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 and counter-insugency 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 ...
F/A-18E/F Super Hornet – Boeing [4] EA-18G Growler – Boeing; A-26 Invader – Douglas (originally designated A-26, then B-26 after the B-26 Marauder was retired, reverted to A-26 during Vietnam-era) A-29 Super Tucano – Embraer; A-37 Dragonfly – Cessna (redesignated from AT-37)
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 stretched EMB-312H (s/n 161) had a more powerful engine and was dubbed the "Super Tucano". During the mid-1980s, as Embraer was working on the Short Tucano, the company also developed a new version designated the EMB-312G1. Also using a Garrett engine, the EMB-312G1 prototype flew for the first time in July 1986. [2]
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]
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]
The service graduated its final class of Afghan student pilots as part of the 81st Fighter Squadron at Moody Air Force Base.
A-29 Hudson, a Lockheed World War II aircraft; Aero A.29, a Czech target tug floatplane of the 1920s; Focke-Wulf A 29, a variant of the 1927 German Focke-Wulf A 17 airliner with a BMW VI engine; A-29, another name of the Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano