WARSAW, Poland — The Czech government is entering negotiations to purchase an undisclosed variety of Embraer C-390 Millennium transport aircraft for the nation’s military, the Defence Ministry announced Tuesday.
“The Armed Forces of the Czech Republic currently don’t own a medium- and long-range aircraft with a flight time of no less than 12 hours which might even be able to taking off and landing at airports with unpaved runways,” the ministry said in a press release.
The Czech company Aero Vodochody supplies to Brazil’s Embraer various components used to make the C-390.
It’s unclear how much the planned acquisition is price.
Should Prague resolve to award an order to Embraer, this is able to represent one other contract for the manufacturer within the region, following Austria’s decision last month to purchase 4 C-390s for the nation’s armed forces.
In a bid to switch its aging fleet of three C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft with recent C-390s, Austria’s Defence Ministry announced Sept. 20 it can to spend between €130 million and €150 million (U.S. $137 million to U.S. $158 million) per plane.
Jaroslaw Adamowski is the Poland correspondent for Defense News.