Brazil and Argentina are cooperating in some projects like the Embraer KC-390 and the Gaucho airborne forces vehicle. There's a lot of proposition on the table, like an Argentinian participation in a new antiship missile currently in development by the Brazilian Navy. Argentina, also, is very interested in the Guarani armored troop carrier. There are conversations, also, in spatial cooperation. Unhappily, China see Latin American only as client not as a potential partner for new military equipment. At the moment, Brazilian Defence Ministry study some Chinese propositions evolving ToT, but not joint ventures.
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Pepe
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i think the question is what policies we have in latin america and what priorities, in Brazil you have a very low profile for weapons adquisitions, in Mexico we do not want advanced fighter aircraft.
If Argentina and Brazil really wanted you could easily develop a fighter aircraft, but the priorities are different to the Chinese.
It is very probable that if Mexico, Brazil and Argentina pool their efforts we could build a jet fighter in the class of the Mirage 2000 or F-16, in South America you can build E-190 which is pretty much a superjet 100 class aircraft, you have AMX and Argentina can build helicopters, in Mexico there is design of jet engines for ITP and GE, but the question is why?
[video=youtube;7S9dBY3pZXo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S9dBY3pZXo[/video]
building bombardier aircraft in Mexico
[video=youtube;S5fqo-96GSA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5fqo-96GSA&feature=related[/video]
The J-20 is a project that spends lot of money, while the E-190 is a program that makes money, i mean our priorities are different, the Chinese need the J-20 because they want to play the card of superpower and their economy grows at 8% a year.
In dollars our economies growt per capita at the same rate of China, at least in Mexico, with a 15000 dollars a year per capita GDP at a rate of 4% we increase the per capita as China in per capita GDP but our goverment wants civil aircraft and just to be suppliers of aerospace products, Brazil wants to be in good relations with the US, so if you would join the Chinese in J-10 or J-20 you would get al kind of political pressure from the EU and the USA and Embraer would lose some suppliers in the US, Europe and Japan.
In Latin America only Brazil wants some degree of domestic self defence, in Mexico we do not need air force, with the USAF and US navy patrolling the waters and skies of north america no power can get near Mexico, and with some hispanics in the USAF and armed forces we get some degree of defence without really spending money.
So J-20 is not going to be sold in latin america even T-50, Brazil will get either Rafales or F-18Es and Mexico perhaps in few years a few F-16s or F-18s.
Argentina won`t buy in my opinion chinese fighters, it will be economic suicide, Europe and the US will react with all kinds of pressures to stop the deal, in my opinion is possible Argentina could buy JF-17s, but i am of the opinion most likely they will buy Russian, but if Argentina wants jets they will buy second hand F-16s from a European nation.
J-20 is an offensive weapon, too expensive and too risky, it will only spend money and won`t get us many friends in the west, so in my opinion Brazil won`t join China for a steath program.
Venezuela could buy T-50 but they are already in bad relations with the west, Brazil has more pragmatic policies
