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Embraer R-99, the Glossary

The Embraer R-99 is the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) military designation of the EMB-145-RS.^[1]

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1990s Brazilian electronic warfare aircraft
AWACS aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1999
Embraer aircraft

Active electronically scanned array

An active electronically scanned array (AESA) is a type of phased array antenna, which is a computer-controlled antenna array in which the beam of radio waves can be electronically steered to point in different directions without moving the antenna.

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Air France Flight 447

Air France Flight 447 (AF447/AFR447) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France.

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Air show

An air show (or airshow, air fair, air tattoo) is a public event where aircraft are exhibited.

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Airborne early warning and control

An airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system is an airborne radar early warning system designed to detect aircraft, ships, vehicles, missiles and other incoming projectiles at long ranges, as well as performing command and control of the battlespace in aerial engagements by informing and directing friendly fighter and attack aircraft.

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Airbus A330

The Airbus A330 is a wide-body aircraft developed and produced by Airbus. Embraer R-99 and Airbus A330 are Twinjets.

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Amazon Surveillance System

The Amazon Surveillance System (SIVAM, Sistema de Vigilância da Amazônia), is a complex surveillance system used for monitoring Amazônia Legal ("legal Amazon area").

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Anápolis Air Force Base

Anápolis Air Force Base – ALA2 is a base of the Brazilian Air Force, located in Anápolis, Brazil.

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Anti-ship missile

An anti-ship missile (AShM or ASM) is a guided missile that is designed for use against ships and large boats.

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Anti-submarine warfare

Anti-submarine warfare (ASW, or in the older form A/S) is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, submarines, or other platforms, to find, track, and deter, damage, or destroy enemy submarines.

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Bathinda Airport

Bathinda Airport is a domestic airport and an Indian Air Force base serving the city of Bathinda and the Malwa region in Punjab, India.

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Black Sea

The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Brazilian Air Force

The Brazilian Air Force (Força Aérea Brasileira, FAB) is the air branch of the Brazilian Armed Forces and one of the three national uniformed services.

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Bulgaria

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest country in Europe.

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Command and control

Command and control (abbr. C2) is a "set of organizational and technical attributes and processes...

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Dassault Falcon 7X

The Dassault Falcon 7X is a large-cabin, range business jet manufactured by Dassault Aviation, the second largest of its Dassault Falcon line.

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Data link

A data link is a means of connecting one location to another for the purpose of transmitting and receiving digital information (data communication).

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DRDO AEW&CS

The DRDO Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEW&CS) is a project of India's Defence Research and Development Organisation to develop an airborne early warning and control system for the Indian Air Force.

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Electronics and Radar Development Establishment

Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE) is a laboratory of the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), India.

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ELTA Systems

ELTA Systems Ltd (ELTA) is an Israeli provider of defense products and services specializing in radar, ELINT, COMINT, C4ISTAR, Electronic Warfare, Communication, Autonomous Ground Systems, Intelligence and Cyber products.

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Embraer

Embraer S.A. is a Brazilian multinational aerospace corporation.

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Embraer ERJ family

The Embraer ERJ family (for Embraer Regional Jet) are regional jets designed and produced by the Brazilian aerospace company Embraer. Embraer R-99 and Embraer ERJ family are Embraer aircraft, t-tail aircraft and Twinjets.

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Embraer Legacy 450/500 and Praetor 500/600

The Embraer Legacy 450/500 and Praetor 500/600 are a family of mid-size and super mid-size business jets built by Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer. Embraer R-99 and Embraer Legacy 450/500 and Praetor 500/600 are Embraer aircraft, t-tail aircraft and Twinjets.

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Empennage

The empennage, also known as the tail or tail assembly, is a structure at the rear of an aircraft that provides stability during flight, in a way similar to the feathers on an arrow.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Erieye

The Erieye radar system is an Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEW&C) developed by Saab Electronic Defence Systems, formerly Ericsson Microwave Systems, of Sweden.

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Fernando de Noronha

Fernando de Noronha, officially the State District of Fernando de Noronha (Portuguese: Distrito Estadual de Fernando de Noronha) and formerly known as the Territory of Fernando de Noronha (Portuguese: Território de Fernando de Noronha) until 1988, is an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, part of the State of Pernambuco, Brazil, and located off the Brazilian coast.

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Forward-looking infrared

Forward-looking infrared (FLIR) cameras, typically used on military and civilian aircraft, use a thermographic camera that senses infrared radiation.

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Galley (kitchen)

The galley is the compartment of a ship, train, or aircraft where food is cooked and prepared.

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GlobalEye

GlobalEye is a multi-role airborne early warning & control (AEW&C) platform from Swedish defence and security company Saab. Embraer R-99 and GlobalEye are AWACS aircraft.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Gulfstream G550

The Gulfstream G550 is a business jet aircraft produced by General Dynamics' Gulfstream Aerospace unit in Savannah, Georgia, US. Embraer R-99 and Gulfstream G550 are t-tail aircraft and Twinjets.

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Halmstad

Halmstad is a port, university, industrial and recreational city at the mouth of the Nissan river, in the province of Halland on the Swedish west coast.

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Hardpoint

A hardpoint is an attachment location on a structural frame designed to transfer force and carry an external or internal load.

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Hellenic Air Force

The Hellenic Air Force (HAF;, sometimes abbreviated as ΠΑ) is the air force of Greece (Hellenic being the endonym for Greek in the Greek language).

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Identification friend or foe

Identification, friend or foe (IFF) is a combat identification system designed for command and control.

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Indian Air Force

The Indian Air Force (IAF) is the air arm of the Indian Armed Forces.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Libyan civil war (2011)

The Libyan civil war, also known as the First Libyan Civil War, was an armed conflict in 2011 in the North African country of Libya that was fought between forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and rebel groups that were seeking to oust his government.

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Maiden flight

The maiden flight, also known as first flight, of an aircraft is the first occasion on which it leaves the ground under its own power.

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Maritime patrol

Maritime patrol or maritime reconnaissance is the task of monitoring areas of water.

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Mexican Air Force

The Mexican Air Force (FAM; Fuerza Aérea Mexicana) is the air service branch of the Mexican Armed Forces.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.

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No-fly zone

A no-fly zone, also known as a no-flight zone (NFZ), or air exclusion zone (AEZ), is a territory or area established by a military power over which certain aircraft are not permitted to fly.

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Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.

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Radar

Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.

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Radar warning receiver

Radar warning receiver (RWR) systems detect the radio emissions of radar systems.

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RAF Fairford

Royal Air Force Fairford or more simply RAF Fairford is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

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Raytheon Sentinel

The Raytheon Sentinel is a retired airborne battlefield and ground surveillance aircraft formerly operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF). Embraer R-99 and Raytheon Sentinel are t-tail aircraft and Twinjets.

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Regional jet

A regional jet (RJ) is a jet-powered regional airliner with fewer than 100 seats.

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Remote sensing

Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object, in contrast to in situ or on-site observation.

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Rolls-Royce AE 3007

The Rolls-Royce AE 3007 (US military: F137) is a turbofan engine produced by Rolls-Royce North America, sharing a common core with the Rolls-Royce T406 (AE 1107) and AE 2100.

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Rolls-Royce Holdings

Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational aerospace and defence company incorporated in February 2011.

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Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.

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Russian invasion of Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.

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Saab AB

Saab AB (originally,, acronym SAAB), with subsidiaries collectively known as the Saab Group (Saabgruppen), is a Swedish aerospace and defense company primarily operating from Sweden.

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Saab Surveillance

Saab Microwave systems is a Swedish company which was founded in 1956 as Ericsson Microwave Systems.

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Shining Path

The Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso), self-named the Communist Party of Peru (Partido Comunista del Perú, abbr. PCP), is a far-left political party and guerrilla group in Peru, following Marxism–Leninism–Maoism and Gonzalo Thought.

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Signals intelligence

Signals intelligence (SIGINT) is the act and field of intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, whether communications between people (communications intelligence—abbreviated to COMINT) or from electronic signals not directly used in communication (electronic intelligence—abbreviated to ELINT).

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Synthetic-aperture radar

Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) is a form of radar that is used to create two-dimensional images or three-dimensional reconstructions of objects, such as landscapes.

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Torpedo

A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, and with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target.

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Very high frequency

Very high frequency (VHF) is the ITU designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves (radio waves) from 30 to 300 megahertz (MHz), with corresponding wavelengths of ten meters to one meter.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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2011 military intervention in Libya

On 19 March 2011, a multi-state NATO-led coalition began a military intervention in Libya to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 (UNSCR 1973), in response to events during the First Libyan Civil War.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_R-99

Also known as EMB 145, EMB-145 Erieye, Embraer 145 AEW&C, Embraer 145 RS/AGS, Embraer E-99, Embraer E99, Embraer EMB-145-H, Embraer ERJ 145 Military Variants, Embraer P-99, Embraer P99, Embraer R-99A, Embraer R-99A Erieye, Embraer R99, Embraer R99A, Embraer R99A Erieye, R-99A, R-99A Erieye, R99 (plane), R99A, R99A Erieye.

, Regional jet, Remote sensing, Rolls-Royce AE 3007, Rolls-Royce Holdings, Romania, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Saab AB, Saab Surveillance, Shining Path, Signals intelligence, Sweden, Synthetic-aperture radar, Torpedo, Very high frequency, YouTube, 2011 military intervention in Libya.

Embraer R-99, the Glossary

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See also

1990s Brazilian electronic warfare aircraft

AWACS aircraft

Aircraft first flown in 1999

Embraer aircraft

References