The Dutch Ministry of Protection has signed a contract for the acquisition of 9 Embraer C-390 Millennium airplane right through a ceremony on the Farnborough Airshow. As phase of the venture ‘Replacement of Tactical Airlift Capacity’, the contract is a joint purchase, in cooperation with Austria – 5 airplane for the Royal Netherlands Air Power and four airplane for the Austrian Air Power.
With this joint disclose, every international locations goal at increasing their ability to all of a sudden deploy or evacuate instruments and personnel worldwide, even below sophisticated operational prerequisites. The improved tactical airlift capability equipped by the C-390 will increase operational flexibility and responsiveness, affords logistical make stronger in assorted missions and operations, and permits a large differ of humanitarian and clinical tasks.
The joint purchase can even allow every nations – as wisely as unusual and future operators – to cooperate and discover the succor of synergies in areas be pleased coaching, logistics and future growth of the platform, along with the opposite C-390 operators in NATO nations. The C-390 Millennium affords maximum operational readiness enabling interoperability and connectivity in networked environments and a pair of domains.
The C-390 will make stronger operational capability by providing better efficiency, increased reliability, and higher transport capability. Additionally, the need for the C-390 ensures that the Royal Dutch and Austrian Air Forces are equipped with direct-of-the-artwork technology to meet the mission requires of the long creep.
“It is colossal that we will have the selection to imprint this settlement for every Austria because the Netherlands. I’m elated to peep that we will have the selection to aquire these planes with the identical specifications. Right here is a compatible instance of collaboration in Europe between international locations. The constructive make stronger of Embraer has performed the largest role within the a success realization of this settlement. We be pleased the contribution of Embraer and ogle ahead to a a success cooperation”, said Vice-Admiral Jan Willem Hartman, National Armaments Director of the Netherlands.
“We welcome the Netherlands and Austria because the most up-to-date participants of the rising neighborhood of nations that discover ordered the C-390 Millennium, essentially the most setting friendly and new navy tactical transport currently in operation”, said Bosco da Costa Jr, President and CEO, Embraer Protection & Security. “This airplane is the excellent desire available within the market, providing an unbeatable aggregate of excessive efficiency, evolved technology and low life cycle prices.”
Since coming into operation with the Brazilian Air Power in 2019 and the Portuguese Air Power in 2023, the C-390 has confirmed its capability, reliability, and efficiency. The unusual rapidly of airplane in operation has accumulated extra than 13,000 flight hours, with mission succesful price of 93% and mission completion charges above ninety 9%, demonstrating out of the ordinary productivity within the class.
The C-390 can elevate extra payload (26 loads) when put next with other medium-sized navy transport airplane and flies faster (470 knots) and farther, being in a position to performing a large differ of missions a lot like transporting and dropping cargo and troops, clinical evacuation, search and rescue, firefighting, and humanitarian missions, working on short-term or unpaved runways. The airplane configured with air-to-air refueling instruments, with the designation KC-390, can operate every as a tanker and as a receiver, in this case also by receiving gas from one other KC-390 the utilization of pods installed below the wings.
