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Defense Minister Nikos Dendias said connected Thursday that Greece was funny successful purchasing Brazilian-made Embraer C-390 subject planes partly produced successful Portugal.
Dendias, who is paying a two-day visit to Portugal, was speaking aft gathering his Portuguese counterpart, Nuno Melo, successful Lisbon.
“We had the accidental to sermon galore issues … one of them was the anticipation of purchasing the C-390 plane,” Dendias said.
He did not springiness much details connected the fig of the planes oregon the price. Greece, which presently operates some the C-130 and C-27, plans to spend astir €28 cardinal by 2036 to modernize its armed forces arsenic it emerges from a 2009-2018 indebtedness crisis.
Portugal’s OGMA, 65%-owned by Embraer with the remainder held by the Portuguese state, is simply a cardinal concern spouse in the C‑390 program, producing parts of the cardinal fuselage that are shipped to Brazil for last assembly.
The Iberian state was the archetypal European and NATO state to spot an bid for the C-390, successful 2019, and has received some units successful erstwhile years. [Reuters]
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