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Portuguese Air Force eyes additional transport and ISR capabilities

The Director of the Engineering and Programs Directorate, Brigadier General João Rui Ramos Nogueira, told Janes that a sixth KC-390 Millennium tanker-transport aircraft is likely to be acquired from Embraer, while the FAP's Airbus C-295 VIMAR and Lockheed P-3C Orion aircraft are to be upgraded.

The FAP is now weighing the acquisition of a new KC-390 aircraft, Brig Gen Nogueira said, with a decision to be made in 2024. Portugal has until 2025 to trigger this option, he added.

The first aircraft was delivered to 506 Squadron ‘Rinocerontes' in October 2023. The remaining four aircraft will be received in March 2024, March 2025, March 2026, and March 2027.

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Portugal receives first modernised Hercules airlifter

After several delays, the Portuguese Air Force (Força Aérea Portuguesa: FAP) took delivery of the first modernised Lockheed Martin C-130H Hercules transport aircraft on 2 May.

A ‘stretched' C-130H-30 Hercules was formally received by the Squadron 501 ‘Bisontes', the FAP said.

OGMA – Indústria Aeronáutica de Portugal was awarded a contract in November 2018 worth EUR15.5 million (USD16.7 million) to modernise two C-130Hs and two C-130H-30s.

The modernised fleet was scheduled for delivery during 2019 and 2020, however, the Covid-19 pandemic, budget restrictions, and other issues have significantly slowed the effort.

Delivery of the remaining three modernised aircraft is scheduled to take place during 2024 and 2025, Janes was told.

The modernisation, co-financed by the European Union through the Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research (SESAR) mechanism, aims to enable the Hercules fleet to comply with the Communications, Navigation, Surveillance/Global Air Traffic Management (CNS/GATM) requirement.

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