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Aerospace firm Embraer launches campaign for transport aircraft to IAF

Deliveries of the MTA are required to commence within 36 months of signing a contract

C-390 Millennium
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A file photograph of the C-390 Millennium medium transport aircraft operating off an unpaved runway

Ajai Shukla

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Two months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the Group of Seven Summit in Hiroshima, Brazil has made a strong pitch for providing India with medium transport aircraft (MTA), for which the Indian Air Force (IAF) has issued a global tender.

Launching its MTA campaign in New Delhi on Monday, Brazil’s state-owned aerospace company, Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica S.A. (Embraer S.A. or Brazilian Aeronautics Corporation), briefed the press on the capabilities of its C-390 Millennium cargo lifter, which Embraer executives claimed made it ideal for the IAF.

“An Embraer C-390 Millennium Day

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