Brazzil

2008 Sales % of top Three.

AIRBUS112.588.86%
Boeing12.710.03%
Embraer1.41.11%

Number three in the world>>>>....
1.1 % is not something to crow about.

We have US Cities that spend more than that each year.
Number three sounds good till you look at the realaity, that beeing $$$$$$$$$$$$$.

Bombardier Aerospace
With more than 32,500 employees and well-positioned in global markets, Bombardier Aerospace ranks as the world’s third largest civil aircraft manufacturer.

At 1.75 Billion dollars (US) Bombardier Aerospace beat out Brazil.

Go figure flawed information out of Brazil.

Not even # 3 let alone a big force.

Embraer turnover for 2008 was over 5 billion USD.You can check on the biggest companies from Latin America on americaeconomia.com.

BUT HOW MUCH OF THE PLANS IS BUILT IN BRAZIL .

all the ele parts and safety equipment are all from US and EAU vendors.

and when you use slave laubor to build them it is easy to sell them for less and make a biger profit

Yessss...and most of it in commercial airplanes or fields spraying airplanes !

Whoaaaaaa....what's left for the deliveries to the army ?

Thus comparing Brazil to Russia, India and China is like comparing
a drip of water against a glass of water !
What brazilians armaments are going to buy Russia, India and China ?????

Keep your endemic disease : the well known brazilian navel caressing !

The KC-390 does not even exist. It's being developed to satisfy the aerial refueling tanker market with the FAB as the initial launch customer. It's not a tracked tank carrier / general cargo / competitor for the venerable C-130B/C/D/E/H/H2/H30 garbage skows. Being they've scrapped the idea of doing a fat body commercial 190 variant and are starting from a clean slate maybe it can do those vs just being extended into the domestic mail and parcel carrier marketplace.

FAB has led the world with renovating their C-130s with the latest technology in glass c**kpits and others are following their lead. Of course that was not Brasilian technology but then the AMX wasn't either. They don't have engines to support the AMXs as that was done as a consortium thing long long ago (which was also the roots of Embraer before protectionism set in??)