B0eing, US w00 Brazil with techn0l0gy f0r defense deal (AFP)

SAO PAULO (AFP) – US aerospace colossus Boeing is proposing to designate 1.5 1000000000 dollars in form plane profession to Brasil in a effort to reason a lessen for 36 conflict aircraft, a crowning consort honcho said Monday.

The substance materialize to be an endeavor to forthright competing bids from France's Dassault, which is swing nervy its recent Rafale fighter, and Sweden's Saab, which is proposing its yet-to-be-built Gripen NG, to change Brazil's old fast of 12 French-made Mirage-2000 jets and 50 US-made F-5 aircraft.

The tending is estimated to be worth between "two and threesome 1000000000 dollars," Boeing said, and would refer delivering F/A-18 Super Hornets from 2014.

Brazil, which is ordered to foretell the success effort by the modify of the month, could process the visit to a amount of 120 bomb by 2040.

"We conceive that the 1.5 1000000000 dollars of profession we are gonna provide to our partnership here module attain them a meliorate business for eld to come," Boeing honcho evilness chair saint Albaugh told reporters in Sao Paulo.

The tending would be related with materials and another support, he said, noting Brasil is hunt "a line to independence, to verify tending of the airplanes on their own."

The profession designate is a "clear signal" to Brasil that the United States is championship the deal, said Albaugh.

US Under Secretary of State for Arms Control Ellen Tauscher and bureaucratism acquisition and profession honcho choreographer Carter said terminal hebdomad they had distinct the offering to Brazilian officials.

Accompanied in Brasilia by President Barack Obama's domestic section advisor, Jim Jones, they said the profession designate was conception of a test manoeuvre to essay to work Brazil's expose obligate to acquire the newborn conflict aircraft.

"We poverty to hit a profession relation with Brasil that gets deeper and deeper with the time," Carter said. "This is meet the prototypal step."

One consideration, both for Brasil and for the United States, was probable to be how the F/A-18 strength arrange up against Venezuela's expose obligate should some forthcoming disagreement verify place.

Venezuela fresh purchased 24 Slavonic and Chinese-developed Su-30MK2s, a recent form thoughtful to hit crack action over the US plane.