The Dutch Ministry of Defense has signed a contract for the acquisition of nine Embraer C-390 Millennium plane at some stage in a ceremony on the Farnborough Airshow. As a part of the venture ‘Replacement of Tactical Airlift Capability’, the contract is a joint buy, in cooperation with Austria – five plane for the Royal Netherlands Air Power and 4 plane for the Austrian Air Power.
With this joint allege, both countries aim at rising their capacity to impulsively deploy or evacuate tools and personnel worldwide, even under complicated operational stipulations. The enhanced tactical airlift capacity equipped by the C-390 will improve operational flexibility and responsiveness, gives logistical give a enhance to in numerous missions and operations, and permits a huge differ of humanitarian and medical duties.
The joint buy will furthermore allow both countries – as smartly as latest and future operators – to cooperate and just like the support of synergies in areas fancy training, logistics and future enhance of the platform, alongside with the opposite C-390 operators in NATO countries. The C-390 Millennium gives maximum operational readiness enabling interoperability and connectivity in networked environments and more than one domains.
The C-390 will toughen operational capacity by offering better performance, higher reliability, and elevated transport capacity. Moreover, the selection for the C-390 ensures that the Royal Dutch and Austrian Air Forces are geared up with sigh-of-the-artwork abilities to meet the mission calls for of the long term.
“It is far huge that we are in a position to ticket this settlement for both Austria as the Netherlands. I’m overjoyed to survey that we are in a position to buy these planes with the connected specs. Here’s a correct instance of collaboration in Europe between countries. The constructive give a enhance to of Embraer has carried out a truly grand feature within the successful realization of this settlement. We fancy the contribution of Embraer and wait for a successful cooperation”, said Vice-Admiral Jan Willem Hartman, Nationwide Armaments Director of the Netherlands.
“We welcome the Netherlands and Austria as the newest contributors of the rising community of countries that like ordered the C-390 Millennium, the most uncomplicated and trendy militia tactical transport currently in operation”, said Bosco da Costa Jr, President and CEO, Embraer Defense & Safety. “This plane is the most uncomplicated choice available within the market, offering an unbeatable combination of high performance, superior abilities and low lifestyles cycle costs.”
Since entering operation with the Brazilian Air Power in 2019 and the Portuguese Air Power in 2023, the C-390 has confirmed its capacity, reliability, and performance. Basically the latest snappy of plane in operation has gathered bigger than 13,000 flight hours, with mission capable rate of 93% and mission completion rates above Ninety nine%, demonstrating distinctive productiveness within the category.
The C-390 can elevate more payload (26 loads) when put next with other medium-sized militia transport plane and flies faster (470 knots) and farther, having the capacity to performing a huge differ of missions equivalent to transporting and shedding cargo and troops, medical evacuation, search and rescue, firefighting, and humanitarian missions, working on transient or unpaved runways. The plane configured with air-to-air refueling tools, with the designation KC-390, can operate both as a tanker and as a receiver, in this case furthermore by receiving gasoline from every other KC-390 the consume of pods assign in under the wings.
