"Unrestricted access to technology" guaranteed

[rpm]

'Unrestricted technology transfer' guaranteed

French President Nicolas Sarkozy wrote a personal letter to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva guaranteeing Brazil "unrestricted access to technology" if it purchased Rafale fighter jets, a Brazilian official said.

 

[jasweb]

Guess I am just missing the following:
1) Why on MyBroadband?
2) This article makes no sense....

My 2c

 

[hyperian]

Guess I am just missing the following:
1) Why on MyBroadband?
2) This article makes no sense....

My 2c

I'm not sure. It is interesting though - I wonder whether this is a result of the Brazilian-French co-operation which was born out of the Air France crash. The Rafale is a beast of an aircraft though

 

[general_koffi]

If Brazil goes through with the purchase, the Rafales could cost up to seven billion dollars, according to estimates by a source in the French presidency.

Seven billion? If they buy 36 of them, that's like 194.4 million dollars each?

Jesus, isn't the F-22 Raptor cheaper than that? (Not that it's for sale, afaik.)

 

[iDenTiTy]

Seven billion? If they buy 36 of them, that's like 194.4 million dollars each?

Jesus, isn't the F-22 Raptor cheaper than that? (Not that it's for sale, afaik.)

Um, actually not.

Make no mistake, the Rafale is a very, very capable challenger with the right pilot...

 

[Jagtiger]

It's may be following hints:
1) Broadband over fighter plane (guarantees that you data is safe!).
2) If you don't buy our planes, we won't share internet access with you then! (and then they will remove all communications technologies from Brazil).

Lol, that may be clue why its on MyBB.

 

[TooFastTim]

AFAIK the F22 Raptor project was cancelled. One of the first things the Obama administration did.

 

[Sackboy]

AFAIK the F22 Raptor project was cancelled. One of the first things the Obama administration did.

I believe only after they had the number of aircraft they wanted on order. Since they won't sell to other countries, they aren't going to break even I guess.

 

[PeterCH]

It would be the foreign overseas sale for the high-performance fighter.

This is not the post to have something missing in it.

 

[captainwifi]

".....The announcement that negotiations had been opened with Dassault prompted the US Embassy in Brazil to issue a statement saying that Washington was committed to transferring "all necessary technology" to Brazil if it buys the F/A-18 fighter made by Boeing....."

"necessary" is used because of ITAR, USA is forbidding key technology innovations such as UAV systems from being exported which is why one should try and deal with Europe as far as possible when dealing with anything tech related:

=== Commercial IMU solution from Poland ===
* http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1109053 ''links to his site and email''
* http://www.aerialrobotics.eu/
* Sells uav systems kbosak at box43.pl
* http://diydrones.com/profile/KrzysztofBosak

or opensource which ITAR can't censor

=== Slugs team ===
* http://www.diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/slugs-ap-fully-flight-tested
* http://slugsuav.soe.ucsc.edu/