Embraer and Anduril are pursuing putting the latters Barracuda cruise missile onto the C-390. (Embraer)
FARNBOROUGH — Brazilian giant Embraer has signed an agreement with US firm Anduril to pursue a palletized weapons program on its C-390 Millenium aircraft, the company announced today.
Under the Memorandum of Understanding, the firms will pursue integrating Anduril’s palletized Baracuda-500M cruise missile onto the Millenium, the first time an offensive capability would be put on the C-390 design.
“We are receiving this demand from several countries around the globe,” Embraer defense boss Bosco da Costa Jr. said during a company presentation at the Farnborough Airshow. While he declined to identify those countries, Costa said the interest was from customers in “Europe, in Asia as well.”
He also declined to give a timeline for when a test might happen of the technology, but said Anduril’s “very efficient, very flexible” methods mean Embraer believes it can be done “very fast.”
