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O protótipo foi uma das principais atrações da Dubai Air Show, encerrada no último dia 16 em Dubai. Trata-se da única aeronave de ataque leve projetada no século 21, especificamente para realizar missões COIN (combate de insurgência), CAS (apoio aéreo aproximado) e ISR (inteligência, vigilância e reconhecimento) e de treinamento avançado.
Pro Line Fusion® on the new B-250 light attack aircraft with multi-role capabilities
We have been selected by Calidus, a new aircraft manufacturer in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to provide Pro Line Fusion® on the new B-250 light attack aircraft with multi-role capabilities. Watch Colin Mahoney give us a tour of the aircraft at the Dubai Airshow.
Novaer junto com a empresa Calidus apresentaram a aeronave de ataque leve B-250 no Dubai Airshow
Desenvolvido pela Novaer em parceria com a empresa Calidus, dos Emirados Árabes Unidos, o B-250 é uma das principais atrações do Dubai Air Show, que termina nesta quinta-feira (16 de novembro), em Dubai.
Calidus pursues B-250 light attack aircraft programme
Novaer came up with an all-carbon fibre design offering reduced weight, improved manoeuvrability and autonomy, and an extended service life, according to Calidus. Ballistic protection is available if required. The aircraft offers maximum autonomy of 12 hours and a top speed of 301kts (557km/h).
Dubai Airshow 2017: Calidus showcases B-250
The B-250 has been part of the Bader programme that originated in 2015 with a range of partners including Brazilian company Novaer, the provider of the aircraft’s structure, and Rockwell Collins, the manufacturer of the onboard avionics system with its Pro Line Fusion technology.
Dubai Air Show 2017: Calidus e Novaer lançam aeronave B-250 desenvolvida em parceria
O lançamento da aeronave contou com presença do comandante da Força Aérea Brasileira, Tenente-Brigadeiro do Ar Nivaldo Rosato, e do Chefe do Estado Maior do Comando-Geral de Apoio (COMGAP), Major-Brigadeiro do Ar José Augusto Crepaldi. Os executivos da Novaer também foram prestigiados pelo Secretário de Produtos de Defesa, Dr. Flávio Augusto Correa Basílio, representando o ministro Raul Jungmann, e pelo Diretor do Departamento de Produtos de Defesa, Brigadeiro do Ar Paulo Roberto de Barros Chã. Eles estavam em companhia do embaixador do Brasil, Fernando Luis Lemos Igreja. O comparecimento das autoridades foi mais uma demonstração do fundamental apoio da Força Aérea Brasileira à indústria nacional de Defesa.
Dubai Airshow 2017 : Le Calidus fait son entrée
Le programme n’en est encore qu’à son stade préliminaire, l’industriel indiquant que la production de série pourrait intervenir « dans un futur proche », même si les commandes ne sont pas encore à l’ordre du jour.
UAE-based Calidus showcases new B-250 light attack aircraft
The B-250 – previously designated the Bader – was designed in collaboration with the Brazilian vendor Novaer and Rockwell Collins in the U.S. Novaer was responsible for the B-250’s airframe. In fact, the lead designer of the B-250 was Joseph Kovács, who also designed the Embraer Tucano, that reported by Aviation Week.
Dubai Airshow 2017 : B-250, l’avion d’attaque “made in UAE”
Novaer à conçu une plateforme constituée à 100 % en fibre de carbone. Une matière légère qui selon Calidus autorise de meilleures performances (En manoeuvrabilité et en autonomie) et une meilleure durée de vie. L’autonomie maximale de l’avion serait de 12 heures et la vitesse maximale annoncée est de 301 noeuds (557 km/h). L’industriel emirati explique que la firbre de carbonne est aussi résistante que le métal mais que des éléments de blindages peuvent être ajoutés à la demande du client.
Parceria com os Emirados Árabes coloca a Novaer na vitrine do mercado aeroespacial mundial.
O lançamento da aeronave contou com presença do comandante da Força Aérea Brasileira, Tenente-Brigadeiro-do-Ar Nivaldo Rosato, e do Chefe do Estado Maior do Comando-Geral de Apoio (COMGAP), Major-Brigadeiro do ar José Augusto Crepaldi. Os executivos da Novaer foram também prestigiados pelo Secretário de Produtos de Defesa, Dr. Flávio Augusto Correa Basílio, representando o ministro Raul Jungmann, e o pelo Diretor do Departamento de Produtos de Defesa, Brigadeiro do Ar Paulo Roberto de Barros Chã. Eles estavam em companhia do embaixador do Brasil, Fernando Luis Lemos Igreja. O comparecimento das autoridades foi mais uma demonstração do fundamental apoio da Força Aérea Brasileira à indústria nacional de Defesa.
DefesaNet – Brasil – Arábia – DUBAI – Apresentado o CALIDUS B-250
Ele possui uma aviônica de ponta muito forte para permitir que a aeronave faça suas missões com precisão, disse ele. A aviônica Pro Line Fusion terá interfaces gráficas que estão integradas com um HUD digital e janelas de exibição multifunções.
Dubai Airshow 2017: UAE-based Calidus reveals new COIN aircraft
The single-engined B-250, which was unveiled at the Dubai Airshow running from 12 to 16 November, is a tandem twin-seat aircraft that is built around the Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion avionics suite.
New Calidus B-250 aircraft to feature Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion® integrated avionics
Pro Line Fusion is already operational on a number of different platforms, including business jet, air transport, tilt-rotor and military flight decks. The system has also been successfully demonstrated for use as a ground control station for unmanned aerial system (UAS) applications.
Emirati Light Attack Aircraft Breaks Cover
Developed under conditions of some secrecy in just 20 months, the B-250 has been designed by Novaer at São José dos Campos, near São Paulo, under the leadership of Joseph Kovács, who created the Embraer Tucano. The B-250 draws on Kovács’s work in producing the redesigned Golden Aircraft/US Aircraft Corporation A-67 Dragon, but incorporates significant elements of composite structure. It has a stepped tandem cockpit and is powered by a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-68 that develops 1,600 shp.
UAE’S CALIDUS LLC SHOWCASES B-250 COUNTERINSURGENCY ATTACK AIRCRAFT
Manufacturers of these aircraft claim that by virtue of using turboprop engines (particularly the ubiquitous PT6A-series), these aircraft have lower operating costs, yet they – like costlier fast jets such as the F-16 – can deploy precision-guided munitions for CAS and targeted strike engagements in asymmetrical and low-intensity threat environments, such as COIN.
Dubai Airshow: Made in the UAE
The B-250 is claimed to be “the first military fighter ever developed in the UAE”, but it has been co-developed with Brazil’s Novaer, and is understood to have been designed by that company’s Hungarian-born chief designer, Joseph Kovács.
DUBAI: Calidus’s homegrown attack on strike market
The all-new, multirole strike and surveillance aircraft was developed over only a two-year period in conjunction with Brazilian aerospace company Novaer.
UAE’s Latest Aircraft Introduced by Calidus
Surrounded by weapons which can be hung on its seven hardpoints, and additionally fitted with an electro-optical sensor turret under the forward fuselage, the B-250 is offered for close air support; intelligence, surveillance & reconnaissance; counter-insurgency; and advanced training.
Minister assures support for NOVAER’s factory in Santa Catarina
With the presence of SCPar’s President Paulo César da Costa and the Governor of SC Raimundo Colombo, NOVAER had a meeting in the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and,
NOVAER attended the launch of the Parliamentary Front for Aeronautics and Space Industry of Brazil
The CEO of NOVAER, Graciliano Campos, and the Chairman of the Board, Paulo Junqueira, went to Brasilia on Wednesday (24/06) to participate and support the launch of theParliamentary Front for Aeronautics and Space Industry,
NOVAER attended LAAD 2015
NOVAER, with support from ABIMDE, attended the LAAD Defense & Security – International Defense and Security fair, held in Rio de Janeiro, between April 14th and 17th, 2015
NOVAER attended IDEX 2015
IDEX is the one of the largest defense fairs of the world, attracted more than 1,200 companies of different sizes, from more than 60 countries.
NOVAER Receives “Excellence in Composites Award”
The first prototype of the T-Xc Project demonstrates the great qualities of the advanced composite materials used in aircraft construction, which give lightness and contribute to the optimal performance of the airplane.
NOVAER And The Air Force Academy Recreate History
Like the current trainer of the Brazilian Air Force Academy (AFA), the T-27 Tucano, the choice of the NOVAER aircraft’s name was defined through a contest involving all the employees of the AFA. The idea of the competition came both to honor the aviators and students of the Academy, as well as to remember a tradition started in the 80s, when it fell to the AFA’s effective to choose the name of the, today world-renowned, Tucano.
Novaer’s T-Xc makes its first in flight landing gear retraction
NOVAER’s T-Xc aircraft made yesterday, thursday October 23rd, its first retraction and extension of landing gear during a flight.
FAB delivers title of Commendator to Joseph Kovacs
October 23rd is a significant date to the Brazilian aeronautic, for it represents the “Day of the Aviator” and the “Day of the Brazilian Air Force”, alluding to the first flight of Santos Dumont with the 14 BIS.
NOVAER participates in the event “DCTA Open Gates
The event gathered hundreds of families and brought to the public a series of entertainment, including the exhibition of airplanes and helicopters, flight presentations and skydiving, among many other cultural attractions.
Brazilian Minister of Defense Receives NOVAER in Brasília
The company also demonstrated the variety of products that can emerge from the same platform, for example, an aero medical version suited for rescue and transportation in hostile regions or for harvesting of organs for transplant, a small load transporter or liaison aircraft to be used by the armed forces, and a turboprop military trainer with ejection seats (T-Xc MTP), aside from the known civilian transport version (with ballistic parachute) and the primary-basic military trainer, which NOVAER intends to offer to the Brazilian Air Force and other air forces of the continent and the world.
NOVAER Willing to Evaluate Components Suppliers in South America
The company, which in coming months will be based in the city of Lages, develops the military trainer T-Xc, its civilian version U-Xc and new landing gear of the T-27 Tucano, among other projects.
NOVAER receives the visit of Engineer Ozires Silva
This inspiring visit left us with many good things, among them the wise advices of someone who has gone on a huge entrepreneurship adventure in Brazil, founding EMBRAER back in the 70’s.
Brazilian Air Force Commander meets with NOVAER
On September 2nd, NOVAER representatives met with the Commander of the Brazilian Air Force LT. Brig. Juniti Saito to present an updated status of the T-Xc program, reporting the completion of the prototype and the first successful flight of the aircraft, which occurred on August 22.
Brazil’s Defense Minister visits Novaer’s stand at the 3rd Brazil Defense Expo
Novaer informs that it has received, last Tuesday (September 2nd) at the opening of the 3rd Brazil Defense Expo, the illustrious visit of the Brazil’s Minister of Defense, his Excellency Mr. Celso Amorim.
Vice-President visits Novaer’s T-Xc aircraft Prototype
Novaer intends to offer the product to the Defense market, as a primary-basic military trainer, and to the civilian market, with a four place utility (transport) version and instruction for flight schools.
According to the the company CEO, Graciliano Campos, the next steps are the certification and industrialization of the aircraft.
Novaer is proud to announce the first flight of the T-Xc prototype
The T-Xc prototype manufactured by Novaer Craft made its debut flight today, August 22nd, 2014. The aircraft took off at 11:30 AM from the São José dos Campos airport (SBSJ).
Novaer receives the Certificate of Strategic Defense Company
Attending the event at the headquarters of the Defense Ministry in Brasilia were the CEO of Novaer, Graciliano Campos, and the members of the Board of Directors, Paulo Cesar da Costa and Paulo Junqueira, to receive from the Director of the Department of Defense Products, Major Brig. Jose Euclides da Silva Gonçalves, the certificate of Strategic Defense Company.
Novaer is Certified as a Strategic Defense Company
Novaer is certified by the Ministry of Defense as a “Strategic Defense Company – EED”, as specified on the law 12.598 from 2012.
Novaer Rolls Out its First Prototype
Novaer held last week, on March 31st, the Roll Out ceremony for the T-Xc aircraft’s first prototype. The event, which took place in the very own hangar where the aircraft was built, was attended by military officials, civilian authorities, Novaer employees, and partners on the project.
Novaer receives the visit of Engineer Ozires Silva
Born in Bauru, in 1931, Silva was colonel at the Brazilian Air Forces, graduated in 1962, earned a Master’s degree in Aeronautical Science from the California Institute of Technology, in 1966 . Soon after, in 1970, became the first president of Embraer.
February 28th, 2014 – Novaer was approved at Inova Aerodefesa
On February 25 FINEP released the final result of the plan and Novaer fell within the “Category 1” (Aerospace) and was approved in the modalities: Refundable, Economic Subsidy and ICT/Company Cooperation, together with the CERTI Foundation and ITA.
Novaer Will be at FIDAE 2014
Novaer, just as it has been doing in the past editions of the fair, will mark its presence in FIDAE 2014 with a stand at the Brazil Pavilion and will bring the latest photos, videos and news about the production of the test prototypes and certification of the T-Xc aircraft.
