August 27, 2007: Security company Blackwater U.S.A. is buying Super Tucano light combat aircraft from the Brazilian manufacturer Embraer. These five ton, single engine, single seat aircraft are built for pilot training, but also perform quite well for counter-insurgency work. Brazil.Note that StrategyPage calls the Super Tucano a single-seat aircraft. That conflicts with my earlier report, though the plane does have a two-seat version for training. Blackwater is purchasing one of the trainers. Not a bad idea if they want to give their pilots training with the new planes.
(StrategyPage)
There's just one thing that bothers me about this story, and that is that Wonkette wrote about the story before I did.
If my analysis is thin, theirs is thinner.
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More nice pics, along with some specifications, at this French page. One of the photos looks rather a lot like an artist's conception.
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