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Mensaje: <blockquote data-quote="Zecarioca" data-source="post: 1165422" data-attributes="member: 15256">Brazilian Navy starting missile development talks with Denel<a href="http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/print-version/brazilian-navy-starting-missile-development-talks-with-denel-2012-04-13" target="_blank">PRINT <img src="http://us-cdn.creamermedia.co.za/template/en/spacer.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>  <a href="http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/sendemail/brazilian-navy-starting-missile-development-talks-with-denel-2012-04-13" target="_blank">EMAIL <img src="http://us-cdn.creamermedia.co.za/template/en/spacer.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  |</a>  By: <a href="http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/author.php?u_id=9" target="_blank">Keith Campbell</a>13th April 2012 TEXT SIZE <a href="http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/brazilian-navy-starting-missile-development-talks-with-denel-2012-04-13" target="_blank"><img src="http://us-cdn.creamermedia.co.za/template/en/text_smaller_disabled.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/brazilian-navy-starting-missile-development-talks-with-denel-2012-04-13" target="_blank"><img src="http://us-cdn.creamermedia.co.za/template/en/text_bigger.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> The Commander of the Brazilian Navy has confirmed to Engineering News Online that his service is interested in cooperating with South Africa in missile development."We are beginning to discuss with Denel some joint missile development projects," stated Fleet Admiral Julio Soares de Moura Neto in Cape Town on Friday."Nothing has been signed yet. It would involve the joint development of surface-to-air missiles."Denel is South Africa's State-owned defence industrial group, and its business responsible for missiles (and unmanned air vehicles) is Denel Dynamics, based in Centurion, just south of Pretoria.The only naval surface-to-air missile currently produced by the company is the Umkhonto (which translates into English as Spear). This uses infrared guidance and is already in service with the South African and Finnish Navies.But Denel Dynamics has a project to develop a longer-ranged, radar-guided, version of the missile, referred to as the Umkhonto-R. The Brazilian Navy has long been known to be interested in this programme.Such a joint programme would not be the Brazilian Navy's only missile project. "We have a national project for a surface-to-surface missile (SSM)," reported Moura Neto."It is under development by the Brazilian Navy and Brazilian defence companies, including Mectron and Avibras," he explained. "It's running well. We hope the prototype missile will be ready in 2016."Currently designated simply as the Anti-Ship Missile, the weapon is intended to be launched from surface ships against other surface ships. It will be a medium ranged SSM, in the same general category of the MM40 version of the famous French SSM, the Exocet.The MM40 Exocet is currently operated by the Brazilian Navy and the new, national, SSM could eventually replace it. "[But] it's a long-term journey," he pointed out. "A missile is a very expensive weapon [to develop]."Admiral Moura Neto was attending the 2012 Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) as an observer.Keith Campbell is attending IONS 2012 as a guest of the South African Navy.</blockquote>

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