The larger HT-100 multi-role unmanned helicopter manufactured by Anavia for logistics, intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance missions. The HT-100 can fly for up to six hours at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour.
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Embraer has begun studies on the "offshore patrol" version of the E190-E2
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Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer has launched studies on a maritime patrol version of the E190-E2 and has begun talks with potential development partners in foreign countries, which it plans to continue during the Dubai Air Show, a senior executive told ShowNews.
“We are looking for some international partners who can join us on this journey,” says João Bosco Costa Jr., CEO of Embraer Defense and Security. “So it's a perfect moment to have that kind of conversation with them.”
One configuration of the aircraft under consideration includes the highly modified E190-E2, which features a downward-slanted radome mounted on the nose of the aircraft; Anti-ship missiles carried on the belly of the aircraft; and an internal fuselage bay aft to hold acoustic buoys. But the design is likely to evolve as configuration studies continue.
“We are far from a frozen formation,” Bosco says. “We are now in the process of evaluating all the possibilities and all the solutions available in the market to put the best [effort] we can into this potential product to get a potential launch customer very quickly.”
Maritime patrol concept studies for the 90-seat regional aircraft could provide Embraer with an option to replace nine Brazilian P-3C Orions, which were acquired as used aircraft from the US Navy in 2006.
If officially launched into development, the Embraer-designed E190-E2-based maritime patrol aircraft would represent one of the first large turboprop commercial aircraft to enter this market segment since the US Navy introduced the Boeing P-8A. Over the course of a decade. since. The E190-E2 was equipped with a Pratt & Whitney PW1900 turbofan engine.
In 2020, the Pakistani Army selected the Embraer Lineage 1000 – a variant of the original E190-powered General Electric CF34-8 regional jet – for the maritime patrol aircraft mission.
