На самом деле, контракты эти обсуждались больше года уже.
Реально подписано:
1) Совместное производство в Бразилии 51 вертолета ЕС725 Cougar
2) Постройка в Бразилии четырех ПЛ проекта Marlin (с опционом еще на две)
3) Содействие французов в вечном проектировании бразильской АПЛ
4) Участие Бразилии во французской программе комплектов "солдата будущего" FELIN
Подробности в статье ниже:
Jane's Defence Weekly
Brazil set to sign major defence deal with France
Pedro Paulo Rezende JDW Correspondent
Brasilia
Additional reporting by
Alex Pape Analyst
London
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, were set to sign a major defence deal as JDW went to press.
Due to be signed in Rio de Janeiro on 22 December, the USD2 billion deal involves the acquisition by Brazil of submarines and helicopters as well as Brazilian participation in France's FELIN future soldier programme.
The package is the culmination of an agreement signalled by the heads of state on 12 February 2008 when they met on the Amapa State-French Guiana frontier. As part of the package, four Marlin conventional submarines will be built (with options for two more) at a unit cost of USD450 million, at a new navy shipyard in Sepetiba Bay, Rio de Janeiro State, near the facilities of Brazilian nuclear power company Eletronuclear. France's DCNS will build the new industrial complex and will give technological support to the Brazilian Nuclear Submarine Program, which is intended to create a 6,000-tonne nuclear boat intended to be the first of five in its class.
DCNS will oversee construction of the hull and propulsion system. The Coordenadoria-Geral do Programa de Desenvolvimento do Submarino com Propulsão Nuclear (COGESN - General Co-ordination Programme for the Development of Nuclear Submarine Propulsion) will build the atomic reactor - the prototype is ready to be mounted at a new building at Ipero, Sao Paulo State. The same magnetic levitation system developed for the uranium enrichment programme will be used in the boat's silent propulsion system. Headed by retired admiral José Alberto Accioly Fragelli, the COGESN administrates an annual USD250 million budget and intends to build the new boat within 12 years.
Eletronuclear, created in 1974 to build nuclear reactors, constructed sections for Brazil's German-designed Tupi (Type 209/1400)-class submarines, which were assembled at the Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro shipyard. The Brazilian Navy will retain this old plant at Guanabara Bay to overhaul its Tupi-class boats. These vessels are receiving a Lockheed Martin combat system and will be able to fire Brazilian-developed anti-ship missiles based on Exocet MM40-Mod 1 technology.
Development of the Brazilian Navy's submarine force as the key component of its strategic objective of sea denial is enshrined in the country's National Defence Strategy, published on 17 December 2008. In this White Paper the ministry of defence and government outline the intention to acquire a large fleet of conventional and nuclear-powered submarines while also developing an indigenous capability for the design and construction of both types of boat as well as their missile armaments.
The strategic plan also outlines the intention to "rebuild" the navy with a balanced fleet of multipurpose vessels able to address the secondary objectives of sea control and force projection. This will include high-endurance offshore patrol ships as well as coastal and river patrol vessels; multi-mission surface combatants; and multipurpose auxiliaries. The intention to have vessels with the operational flexibility to act as aircraft carriers points to a desire to maintain a naval aviation capability, although a dedicated aircraft carrier to replace the ageing Sao Paulo is not to be acquired.
Lula and Sarkozy were also set to agree on a new helicopter production facility for EADS/Eurocopter subsidiary Helibras at their 22 December meeting. To be located at Itajuba, in Minas Gerais State, the plant will produce EC 725 multirole helicopters, with the package including 51 units for the Brazilian armed forces. EADS will invest USD400 million in the new complex. The original proposal was for a Brazilian-made Super Cougar adapted for local needs, but Brazilian military authorities regarded the Super Cougar as obsolete and insisted on the new EC 725 model.
The new helicopter line will serve civilian as well as military requirements. Brazil has a strong need for helicopters for economically strategic sectors such as offshore oil exploration and extraction activities.
The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) was holding a contest for 12 cargo helicopters and the front runner was the Russian Mil Mi-171 model. The country's Aeronautics Command also bought 21 new Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawks for transport and combat search and rescue missions, while Sikorsky's SH-60 Seahawk recently won the Brazilian Navy's anti-submarine helicopter contest - this programme will use refurbished sonars from retired SH-3D Sea Kings and is part of a USD194 million deal using US Foreign Military Sales (FMS) funds.
However, the new agreement with France was concluded in large part because of strong political support from strong state industry federations in Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais (FIESP and FIEMG). EADS Brasil President Eduardo Marçon, Helibras President Jorge Viana (former governor of the state of Acre and a close friend of Lula da Silva) and FIESP Defence Committee President Jairo Candido lobbied hard to stop all armed forces programmes so the deal could go ahead. The FAB, however, kept its programme for 12 attack helicopters, won by the Russian Mil Mi-35M at a unit price of USD25 million.
