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http://www.abimde.com.br/?on=noticias¬icia_id=371Flight Technologies preside Fórum de Defesa no DF
20/05/2010
Durante os dias 24 e 25 de maio a Flight Technologies (FT) participará do Fórum Nacional de Defesa Aérea 2010, que acontece no Mercure Líder Brasília.
O evento abordará os objetivos e necessidades do poder aéreo do Brasil com base no contexto da Estratégia Nacional de Defesa, do crescimento econômico e da crescente influência política exercida pelo país na região Latino-Americana.
Além disso, o Fórum contará com palestrantes já confirmados do Ministério das Relações Exteriores, Ministério da Defesa, BNDES, DCTA, SAAB, IAI, dentre outros. Entre os palestrantes encontramos autoridades do serviço público, militares, pesquisadores, professores, empresários e jornalistas especializados no setor aeronáutico e de espaço.
A palestra de abertura será proferida pelo ministro da Defesa Nelson Jobim, tratando sobre o tema "O poder aéreo e a Estratégia Nacional de Defesa". Dois ’workshops’ serão ainda apresentados por especialistas internacionais e deverão aprofundar os participantes em temas emergentes da Defesa Aérea.
A FT, além de presidir a mesa solene durante o evento, participará com a palestra sobre Competitividade na Indústria de Defesa, no 1º dia.
Mais informações sobre o evento: http://www.defesaaereabrasil.com/
Holanda cancela la compra del F-35 JSF/
Dutch Parliament Votes to Cancel First JSF Aircraft
21/05/2010
El parlamento holandés votó el pasado 20 de mayo de 2010, la cancelación del pedido de F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, y finalizar la participación de Holanda en el programa. También se voto una resolución dirigida al ministro de defensa, para que empiece a buscar un sustituto para los F-16. El elegido debe anunciarse en 2012.
La razón de la cancelación es el fuerte incremento de costes que está sufriendo el programa desde 2002.
www.defense-aerospace.com
http://miragec14.blogspot.com/2010/0...-del-f-35.html
Dutch Cancel Order for F-35 JSF
Posted by Christina Mackenzie at 5/21/2010 10:40 AM CDT
The Dutch parliament voted last night by 79 votes against 71 to cancel the order for the first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and to end Dutch participation in the program's Initial Operational Test and Evaluation phase.
The vote on a motion proposed by the Labor Party was based on the fact that price estimates made by Lockheed Martin in response to the Netherlands' original Request for Information and the Supplemental Request for Information of 2008 are not reliable.
However, Minister of Defense Eimert van Middelkoop said the vote was Labor Party “election rhetoric” prior to the June 9 general election and was quoted by Dutch News as saying that dropping out of the trials would still cost Dutch taxpayers €20 million, after having spent €800 million (some say more than €1 billion) to date.
The Netherlands has been run by a caretaker Labor/Christian Democrat government since the previous government lost a vote of confidence in February over the army's deployment in Afghanistan. Van Middelkoop said in a statement issued on May 20 that he was neither willing nor able to act on Parliament's vote as he believed the government's temporary status means it cannot take such irreversible decisions before the election.
But Labor MP Angelien Eijsink says it is irresponsible to continue with the JSF program. She cites delays, the Nunn-McCurdy cost breach, the 2-year delay of the IOT&E and poor progress in flight testing. She also mentioned that Parliament was still awaiting vital data on noise levels and said the industrial business case for JSF participation was no longer valid given the much lower than anticipated number of orders for the aircraft.
Labor says it wants to continue Dutch participation in the System Development and Demonstration (SDD) phase but other parties want to end it.
The Royal Dutch Air Force currently operates 90 F-16s, 18 of which are scheduled to be sold to Chile towards the end of this year. Originally the Netherlands was planning to buy 85 F-35s.
If the decision is implemented it won't exactly be a surprise. Dutch politicians have been rumbling for months that the JSF is far too expensive and the Netherlands' participation in the program is now in the hands of the electorate. But given the general economic doom and gloom in Europe right now, chances are high that the Dutch will vote for a party that is not going to be spending for something that many do not see the need for.
If the Dutch do withdraw could this be the encouragement other wavering European participants need to pull the plug too?
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