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South African Nationwide Defense Force advances with C-390 acquisition course of

Embraer announced the highlight appearance of its C-390 Millennium multi-mission militia transport aircraft at the Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) exhibition, held at Waterkloof Air Force Putrid, September 18-22.

As one of many enviornment’s premier defence and aviation showcases, AAD supplies a strategic platform for Embraer to cowl the extraordinary capabilities of the C-390 to a world viewers of defence, aviation consultants and political authorities.

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At this edition, Embraer had the pleasure of presenting your total capabilities of the C-390 Millennium to the president of South Africa, the Honourable President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa and the Minister of Defense, Mrs. Angie Motshekga. This original generation aircraft additionally attracted big hobby from the South African Nationwide Defence Force (SANDF), which had the chance to evaluate it.

“Embraer recognises the professionalism and dedication of the SANDF at some stage within the continuing preference course of to resume its rapid of legacy transport aircraft as the C-390 is a strategically valuable aircraft that supplies accepted versatility, fluctuate, and bustle. We are confident that it’s far correctly matched to meet the needs of the South African Nationwide Defense Force as correctly as other govt authorities”, acknowledged Bosco da Costa Junior, president and CEO, Embraer Defense & Safety.

“South African Nationwide Defense Force has had the chance to evaluate the C-390 Millennium, and we devour the wide quantity of capabilities and technology that we’ve skilled. SANDF has shown hobby within the C-390 Millennium, because it advances within the valuable steps for the volume of the noteworthy-wanted strategic lift capacity for the SANDF.” acknowledged the South African Nationwide Defence Force.

The aircraft is very liked for its capacity to carry up to 26 plenty of cargo at high bustle and compose a huge spectrum of missions anytime in essentially the most nerve-racking operational circumstances. Since 2019, the C-390 Millennium has demonstrated its operational efficiency for its pause customers, performing tactical troop, cargo, vehicles, and instruments transport, clinical evacuation, catastrophe administration, humanitarian abet, speedy disaster response, search and rescue, aerial refuelling and firefighting.

As essentially the most superior aircraft in its class, the C-390 is provided with a contemporary avionics suite and voice-of-the-artwork mission machine for unrivalled mission success.  The C-390 Millennium, already a proven workhorse, has been selected by Brazil, Portugal, Hungary, The Netherlands, Austria, South Korea and Czech Republic.

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