{"id":21658,"date":"2013-03-01T02:45:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T05:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=21658"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:45:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:45:48","slug":"brazilian-super-tucano-wins-us-air-force-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/01\/brazilian-super-tucano-wins-us-air-force-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Super Tucano Wins US Air Force Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force announced Sierra Nevada Corp, in alliance with Brazil&#8217;s Embraer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123338037\">has won the contract<\/a> to provide the Afghan Air Force with a light attack aircraft.\u00a0 The contract has a very specific dollar figure:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The firm-fixed-price contract is worth $427,459,708&#8230;Work will be completed by Feb. 26, 2019, and the first delivery order is expected to be complete by April 2015.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Super Tucano was competing only with Hawker Beechcraft&#8217;s AT-6.\u00a0 The aircraft for this contract will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2013\/02\/dn-super-tucano-wins-afghanistan-light-air-support-bid-022713\/\">reportedly be built in Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force announced Sierra Nevada Corp, in alliance with Brazil&#8217;s Embraer, has won the contract to provide the Afghan Air Force with a light attack aircraft.\u00a0 The contract has a very specific dollar figure: The firm-fixed-price contract is worth $427,459,708&#8230;Work will be completed by Feb. 26, 2019, and the first delivery order is expected to be complete by [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[58,498,2768,5285,2766,2,2767,2765],"class_list":["post-21658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afghanistan","tag-at-6","tag-embraer","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-hawker-beechcraft","tag-military","tag-sierra-nevada-corp","tag-super-tucano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}